As the big data industry continues to steamroll ahead, one conundrum persists – exactly how do you define it? A new report from the MIT Technology Review addresses this issue by examining definitions ...

While data strategies are far from a recent development, many businesses struggle to get the right levels of engagement in the strategy and business functions questioning the accuracy of the data ...

The big data steam roller continues to move forward, but if you take a brief step back, how would you define “big data?” UC Berkeley’s new Master of Information and Data Science program decided to ...

Discussions of Big Data are everywhere in the news media. Frequent articles appear in mainstream newspapers and magazines discussing the extraordinary growth in the data being collected from consumers ...

Big data refers to extremely large and complex data sets that are so massive and intricate they cannot be managed or analyzed by traditional data processing tools. In life sciences, these vast ...

A report from TechAmerica urges agencies to get started on big data initiatives, and offers guidance on how to make the efforts pay off. A new report on big data in government urges federal agencies ...

Plenty of people have foreseen the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis, but when computers become good enough to understand literature, art and human history, will it ...