Tagged: Big data – ReadWrite

Articles tagged Big data

Friday, 24th May 2013

Hadoop 2.0: Brace Yourself For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough

Hadoop 2.0: Brace Yourself For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough

Hadoop has long been held back by its MapReduce limitations. But that's all about to change.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Thursday, 23rd May 2013

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without talking about Hadoop. But what is Hadoop, and what makes it so important?

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Monday, 20th May 2013

Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid

Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid

The bigger the data set, the bigger the chance for completely misreading the data, particularly with regards to so-called Black Swan events.

Science Matt Asay comments

Friday, 17th May 2013

Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Like It!

Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Like It!

The thousands of attendees at the Google I/O developers conference this week are unwitting guinea pigs for the company's latest Big Data experiment. And they don't seem to have a problem with that.

Cloud Mark Hachman comments

Tuesday, 14th May 2013

What Are The Feds Hiding? Let's Ask The Declassification Engine

What Are The Feds Hiding? Let's Ask The Declassification Engine

The Declassification Engine was designed to peer through the "black bars" of redacted government documents in order to reveal what the feds don't want you to know.

Hack Mark Hachman comments

Monday, 13th May 2013

Big Data May Be A Pretty Small Problem

Big Data May Be A Pretty Small Problem

Data analysis is all the rage, but there is currently a strong debate on how big a data set a business actually needs and how much they need to spend to get that data.

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Friday, 10th May 2013

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics

While Hadoop vendors like to point to the technology's capabilities in Big Data analytics, the reality is that today's Hadoop adoption is almost entirely low-cost data storage and ETL. Is this a bad thing?

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Monday, 29th April 2013

The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data

The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data

The bigger our data sets, the harder it becomes to sift through them to find objective truth, and the higher the costs of getting it wrong. By lowering the bar to data science, open-source tools like Hadoop have actually increased our ability to misread our data, with serious consequences.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Friday, 12th April 2013

Tax Time Tip: 3 Ways The IRS Is Tracking You Online

Tax Time Tip: 3 Ways The IRS Is Tracking You Online

The IRS's data-mining capabilities are bigger and more extensive than ever. Did you double-check your math before filing your return?

John Paul Titlow comments

Thursday, 4th April 2013

Show Us The Data: Time For Companies To Reveal What They Know About Us

Show Us The Data: Time For Companies To Reveal What They Know About Us

It's a good start, but California's Right To Know Act is really just the beginning of what's needed to protect digital privacy.

John Paul Titlow comments

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