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Crunching data to figure out the best way to teach each student
Education has always been rather monolithic in how it taught students. But through analytics, it is possible to customize the way students are taught. All that's needed are the tools. But will they be...
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IBM to help doctors fight heart disease with smarter use of data
IBM Research, Sutter Health, and Geisinger Health System have been granted $2 million for a joint research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of analytics and...
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Why Groupon's top data scientist quit to join this predictive analytics company
After trying out BigML, a predictive analytics service, Groupon's chief scientist David Gerster invested in the company and recently decided to join it as vice president of data science. He exlained...
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Georgia Tech will train young scientists to use data to build space-age...
Finding new, advanced compounds and materials can take up to 20 years as scientists engage in trial and error to see what fits. Using analytics, they hope to cut that down to just a few years. But...
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Turning reams of paper medical records into valuable insights
A Tennessee company that has established itself as a player in converting paper medical records into an electronic format is introducing a way to perform analysis on those records.
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Helping doctors stitch together real-time data to help intensive care patients
Doctors treating patients in an ICU need to make up to 20 decisions per day for as many as 20 patients, and they often do it with data that's hours old. A joint effort by a hospital and tech firms...
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Chartio CEO: The industry is moving from storing data to making sense of it
A company specializing in big data visualization discusses how much the market has changed in just the past year.
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The three universal questions companies ask about big data
Andrew McAfee, who has been studying the impact of big data for several years at MIT, says businesses all have the same three questions. Answering these questions goes a long way toward explaining...
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Why Amazon's Kinesis tool is a big deal for working with big data
Big data sometimes comes in a torrent and you don't want to sift through it later. Amazon has a solution for that, allowing for real-time data feeds into applications.
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How cars will make better use of the data they collect every time you drive
Each new generation of cars comes with more sensors. Eventually those sensors will yield useful information for everything from preventative maintenance to how you tune your radio.
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This company will keep you from choking on data during your Windows XP migration
A Windows XP means a close look at your enterprise, and that look may result in a whole lot of extra data you don't need to deal with. B|DNA offers a service that can cut Windows XP to Windows 7...
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Shazam predicts future pop stars by analyzing listener data
With 400 million users and 15 million tagged songs, music-identification service Shazam may be one of the biggest big data collectors on Earth. That's helped it become remarkably adept at picking...
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How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for them
The British heavy metal legends used analytics to determine where the greatest amount of music theft was taking place, then set up gigs in those areas. The result? Sellout shows.
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The paradox of big data: It's only useful if you break it into small data
All businesses wants to take advantage of big data, but it takes more than desire. In this interview with Digital Clarity Group Analyst Allen Bonde, we discuss some of the challenges facing...
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Welcome to Analytics 3.0: When every company is like Facebook and Google
Thomas Davenport says that business analytics have been around since the 1950s, but it's only in the last couple of years that any company could have the same analytical power as Facebook or Google.
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To get data to work for you, package it to answer the most important questions
Every business could learn lessons from IMS Health, which has broken down its data sets into logical packages with sets of questions designed to help each line of business get the answers they need.
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Google: The Smart Data company
Nobody is as aggressive in pursuing the collection and analysis of information from more sources than Google. The search giant is way past wanting to organize the world's information. Now it's all...
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IBM researcher: Companies won't invest in data privacy until society demands it
IBM's Marie Wallace: "We still have some way to go before we are able to accurately characterize our customers without sliding into an area where it becomes creepy, inappropriate, or unethical...."
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Competition: Use big data to gain March Madness glory
For those March Madness betters eager to get to the next level (or at least the second round), chipmaker Intel and predictive analytics competition platform Kaggle are sponsoring a competition in...
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Smart apps powered by IBM's Watson poised to invade healthcare
IBM has announced a competition to promote the development of apps powered by its Watson cognitive computing platform. But some apps already are in use or in the pipeline.
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