During the Forbes Healthcare Summit 2013, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes talks with Sir Andrew Witty, CEO GlaxoSmithkline, about how the pharma industry is leveraging big data. Traditionally, big pharma kept their data and results under lock and key. Now, with a global population impatient to find answers and cures, the industry is working together to affect change. … [Read more...] about Big Pharma Collaborating On Big Data To Save The World
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In Order to Trust Big Data, Transparency Is Not Enough
Back in the old days of Web 1.0, there has been a short-lived debate on the trustworthiness of information found on websites. We were taught to check that certain information was referenced by other websites as well, that the sources were present and legitimate, and that comparable information could be found on other independent websites. Despite these precautions, a Dutch … [Read more...] about In Order to Trust Big Data, Transparency Is Not Enough
How The Next Generation Of Databases Could Solve Your Problems
The past decades organisations have been working with relational databases to store their structured data. In the big data era however, these types of databases are not sufficient anymore. Although they made a huge difference in the database world and unlocked data for many applications, relational databases miss some important characteristics for the big data era. However, the … [Read more...] about How The Next Generation Of Databases Could Solve Your Problems
The Problem With De-identification As A Privacy Control
De-Identification is a technique, often employed with large data sets, to remove identifying information with the goal of still being able to gain the benefits of correlative analysis while reducing the privacy risks associated with having so much data on individuals. Much of the privacy literature around Big Data privacy focuses on de-identification and the possibility of … [Read more...] about The Problem With De-identification As A Privacy Control
The Industrial Internet Will Bring A Revolution To The Manufacturing Industry
The Industrial Internet can be seen as the integration of complex physical machinery with networked sensors and software. To spur the growth of the Industrial Internet, GE announced in 2013 the development of the Predictivity platform, in cooperation with Amazon Web Services. The goal is to develop an Industrial Internet that is ready for the big data era. It is a Hadoop-based … [Read more...] about The Industrial Internet Will Bring A Revolution To The Manufacturing Industry
