From mobile phone networks to weather data, airports can call upon a growing range of big data when working on route development. Airports are more like “mini-cities” than just a place to catch a ...

Big data analytics are used in making determinations for credit, employment, and even criminal sentencing. Should the government make sure they are used fairly? Big data has a fairness problem. Data ...

Big Data is often discussed as key to future IT work, yet practical discussions of how to use it can be hard to find. The Complete Big Data Master Class Bundle offers a full course load to start ...

Are Cloud-based platforms combined with AI and machine-learning the answer to scientists’ big data problems?

Big Data how I love thee, let me count the ways! As evidence builds about how the big data technology stack is growing in acceptance by cutting a swath over a wide range of industries, it is ...

Investing in field device data can be helpful in the long run The value of big data must not be underestimated. While it is an increasingly helpful tool in the field, the problem for plant personnel ...

Human beings remain mysterious. Our social relationships and the societies we form are still difficult to analyze. All the more so as this mass of people, basically one and the same, changes and ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

These days a lot of buzz surrounds "big data." But, data isn’t just for data scientists. More and more decisions are being made with the weight of data behind them. From budget allocation to lead ...

Vaccines began with the long history of disease in humans. Evidence shows that the Chinese employed smallpox vaccination as early as 1000 CE. Once Edward Jenner created immunity to smallpox by using ...

A draft of the NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework looks to establish a common set of definitions for data science. Behind the "big data" cliché is an explosion in the volume of information ...