The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking for people to help answer the fundamental questions surrounding big data. NIST released the first draft of its Big Data Interoperability ...

Safiye Celik, Josh Russell, Matt Kaeberlein and Su-In Lee. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 50 million people ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

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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 ...

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement. Some 50 suppliers, 46% of which are small and medium-sized ...