As the Big Data megatrend continues to skyrocket, we’ve seen the rapid development of its lesser-known cousin “Applied Big Data.” Applied Big Data is the practice of using new Big Data computing ...
The Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES) has been published quarterly since 1983 by the American Statistical Association. It serves as a unique meeting place for applied economists, ...
There are three buzzwords that, if we had our way, would be stricken completely from the world: “cloud,” “the Internet of Things,” and “big data.” Each of them was coined in an attempt to elegantly ...
DBTA recently hosted a webcast to examine the technology behind InfiniteGraph, the distributed and scalable graph database. Host Tom Wilson, president of DBTA and Unisphere Research, set the stage for ...
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of big data, but there's a dark side, too. "There is a difference between what we want to measure and what we can measure. And we need to be on guard that we ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. The business of ensuring protection from financial loss and ...
When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really ...