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Big Data in Healthcare
October 10, 2012 Perhaps the area with the most to gain is the healthcare arena where the benefits of efficiently assembling large quantities of data can literally be life-altering for a countless number of people. David Shaywitz, a physician, scientist and management consultant, suggests that the next great quest in applied science is the assembly of […]
Big Data Analytics in Medicine
October 5, 2012 – The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will invest $100 million over five years to build a data warehouse to support an enterprise analytics initiative supporting personalized medicine. The goal is to help clinicians develop treatment plans based on an individual patient’s genetic and clinical information, and to use analytics for identify […]
Facebook Ingests 500+ Terabytes Every Day
By Josh Constine, Wednesday August 22, 2012 Facebook revealed some big, big stats on big data to a few reporters at its HQ today, including that its system processes 2.5 billion pieces of content and 500+ terabytes of data each day. It’s pulling in 2.7 billion Like actions and 300 million photos per day, and […]
Three Kinds of Big Data
Looking ahead at big data’s role in enterprise business intelligence, civil engineering, and customer relationship optimization. by Alistair Croll | @acroll | +Alistair Croll | Comment | August 21, 2012 In the past couple of years, marketers and pundits have spent a lot of time labeling everything ”big data.” The reasoning goes something like this: […]
Don’t Know What Big Data Is?
By Minda Zetlin, co-author of The Geek Gap @MindaZetlin A new survey shows small companies are eager to get big data–even though they’re not sure what it is. If you think you know what “big data” is, do you believe your business peers would agree with your definition? Chances are, they wouldn’t. Harris Interactive just […]
NY Life Big Data Insurance
How NY Life is addressing Big Data Insurance by Nicole Hemsoth, Datanami When it comes to adoption of big data technologies, including advanced analytics, visualization, NoSQL and other data management, few business types seem as vocal about the new opportunities as the booming insurance industry. Lately we’ve been writing some interesting developments on the big […]
5 Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data
You may not think you have petabytes of data worth analyzing, but you will, if you don’t already. CIO magazine breaks down the 5 things CIOs need to know, now. By Joab Jackson Fri, May 11, 2012 #1 You will need to think about big data. Big data analysis got its start from the large […]
Genomic Analytics Identify MS Trends
Genomic Analytics Identify MS Trends, by Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum Analytics is leading the way to help researches at University of Buffalo developing algorithms for big data containing genomic datasets to help them uncover critical factors that speed up disease progression in MS patients. This is a complex task, however, given the size and […]
Venture Caoital 1QTR 2012
Michael Greeley, Flybridge Capital Partners Recently the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) – in conjunction with Thomson Reuters and PricewaterhouseCoopers – released 1Q12 funding data for the VC industry, and frankly the numbers are startling – but yet in some sense, upon reflection, not surprising. For the quarter there were 758 deals which raised […]
Big Data Super Bowl
Big Data Super Bowl by Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum How many teams are going to win the Big Data Super Bowl? There is $200 million available to teams that have a high scoring offense and can query, visualize and disseminate big data information. Collaboration and creativity focused on a cross section of agencies […]
