If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses, the famous quote by Henry Ford. Nowadays, Ford uses big data to find out what their customers want and to develop better cars faster. Developing a product that requires 20.000 25.000 different parts to develop, big data seems to be the only way forward and Ford bets heavily on big data. Ford actually … [Read more...] about Ford Drives In The Right Direction With Big Data
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Five Factors to Consider for Your Big Data Initiative
The four Vs. If youre reading this post, chances are good you know what they stand for. In the off-chance you dont, they represent volume, variety, velocity, and value. The first three are relatively quantifiable. The fourth, however, is a bit less tangible, less quantifiable, and as a result it makes it hard to associate a solid ROI to the concept of Big Data usage. This in … [Read more...] about Five Factors to Consider for Your Big Data Initiative
Reclaim your name: FTC Commissioner’s Big Data Plan
On June 26th, United States FTC Commissioner Julie Brill spoke to over 100 activists, advocates, journalists, attorneys, and industry professionals at the 2013 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Washington, D.C. about the challenges she and others are facing with privacy and rising tide of data flooding the world. While extolling the benefits of Big Data, she … [Read more...] about Reclaim your name: FTC Commissioner’s Big Data Plan
The Surprising Effects Of Global Health Data – Video
The biggest problem in Global Health Data is that the data they are looking for is not available. It is unknown which clinics in the developing world have which and how many medicines. It is unknown how many children were born or died in Bolivia, Botswana or Butan. It is unknown what the needs of the elderly are, basically they know nothing because the IT systems to find the … [Read more...] about The Surprising Effects Of Global Health Data – Video
Aerospike Developed a High-Performance NoSQL Database
Company Aerospike Address 2525 E. Charleston Road, Suite 20 Mountain View, CA 95125, USA Founders Brian Bulkowski & Srini Srinivasan Founded 2009 Funding Undisclosed Employees 40 Website www.Aerospike.com Rating 7 bits  Aerospike Database is a Key-Value Store and high performance real-time NoSQL (flex-schema) database. It was designed from the ground up in … [Read more...] about Aerospike Developed a High-Performance NoSQL Database
