One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

An industry-supported online school provides a good grounding in the science and application of very large datasets. A virtual school, developed by a team of leading software and hardware companies, ...

Gone are the days when marketing decisions were guided by intuition and experience. Important marketing decisions are now determined by big data. This refers to the study and application of big, ...

Aaron Kimball co-founded WibiData in 2010. He has worked with Hadoop since 2007 and is a committer on the Apache Hadoop project. Software applications have traditionally been perceived as a unit of ...

This article is part of BD+C's special five-part Technology Report 2014: Top tech tools and trends for AEC professionals. Gregory Janks feels a bit like an impostor at his firm. A self-proclaimed ...

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today -- what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

Robert Kirkpatrick is Director of UN Global Pulse, an innovation initiative of the Secretary-General on big data and artificial intelligence. Felicia Vacarelu is the Communications Officer of UN ...

Big Data refers to data that, due to its quantity and complexity, requires specific applications in order to be processed. New trends in urbanism, data collection, and management, not to mention the ...

You may find the word "data" in the term "data journalism" redundant. After all, newsmaking of any kind, even the tacky, propaganda-driven type, has always relied heavily on data. Earlier, on-set ...