How would the education system look like if each student received the same personalized experience as they do when buying something on Amazon? Education is an industry that can benefit a lot from big data, as I showed in an previous blog post. With more online learning taking place at websites such as Coursera, Udacity or edX and also universities providing more and more … [Read more...] about Big Data Improves Education – Infographic
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From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
The agricultural industry has seen many changes in the past 100 years. Since the birth of the industrial agriculture in 1900, we have moved forward to the era of digital enhanced agriculture where everything that is done prior to seeding and up to after harvesting produces data that can be analysed. Big data already transformed the agricultural industry a lot and in the coming … [Read more...] about From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
Can Big Data Predict The Future? Video
Jeff Hawkins - creator of the Palm Pilot - tells how his passion for neuroscience resulted in building brains in software and hardware. This creation of software that uses brain-like techniques can learn from streaming big data, predict the future and detect anomalies. The engine that drives it is now an open source project called NuPIC that you can use to add brain science to … [Read more...] about Can Big Data Predict The Future? Video
How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
Many industries are starting to see the benefits that can be reaped from analysing and visualizing the vast amounts of data that is created nowadays. Slowly also the more conservative industries are waking up and looking into the direction of big data. One of these industries in the legal industry: justice courts, legal firms and law firms all included. But there are still many … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
How Banks Should Use Big Data Video
The most innovative banks are combining the idea of moving big data to actionable data with Humans-as-a-Service. This means enabling the banking employees with the right data and information to properly serve the customers, regardless of the channel that the customer uses. This results in higher customer satisfaction and higher revenue for the banks. Paul Jameson, Global … [Read more...] about How Banks Should Use Big Data Video
