Big data held the title of "The Next Big Thing" for quite a while. Tech publications and mainstream media alike showered attention on it and we were all promised that if only we could treat the data ...

Israel is making a big bet on big data in medical research and treatment. There are dozens of startups—and large companies—that are parsing anonymized medical data, outcomes and results for patients, ...

Innovations in technology, widespread penetration of electronic devices, and the rapid rise in the use of technology for social purposes have made an unprecedented amount of data available to ...

This paper, compiled by Prof. Huadong Guo and his team, discusses the potential and utility of Big Earth Data through a number of case studies to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In life science research, data comes in many forms - structured clinical trial tables, semi-structured instrument outputs, ...

Most financial service firms, which includes banking and insurance companies, are engaged in a big data project to increase the pace of innovation and uncover game-changing business outcomes. The ...

“Data” is the watchword of the progressive gov tech professional today. If we can put a number to a problem — quantify it, catalog it, assault it with an avalanche of analytics — all will be well.

July 16 — Talend, the global big data integration software leader, today announced the availability of the Talend Big Data Sandbox, a pre-configured virtual environment designed to quickly get big ...

With structured data, data fields are aligned side-by-side in fixed record lengths, with specific data fields appearing at static locations within each record. Unstructured data does not contain a set ...