Many of the latest big data technologies are developed by big data startups from around the world that have found a way to deal with the vast amounts of data. They have developed disruptive big data technology that can be used by organisations to obtain valuable insights and turn data into information and wisdom. Of course, also the large existing IT players have developed … [Read more...] about The Wide Range Of Different Big Data Technologies
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How Big Social Data Can Help Law Enforcement Video
Big data can provide law enforcement with the capabilities to look at the future by combining different sources of information. Big data can help to identify the emergence of the crime and future patterns of crimes. Babak Akhgar, Professor of Informatics, Director of CENTRIC, discusses a 6-tier model of how law enforcement should utilize big data: An assessment should be made, … [Read more...] about How Big Social Data Can Help Law Enforcement Video
How Big Data Enabled Spotify To Change The Music Industry
The commercial music streaming service Spotify was launched in 2008 and since then is has registered over 24 million active users of which 6 million are paying users. The have 3.7 million Facebook fans. It has over 20 million songs online and every day 20.000 new songs are added to the database. Users created over 1 billion playlists and over $ 500 million has been paid out to … [Read more...] about How Big Data Enabled Spotify To Change The Music Industry
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
