Apart from its square focus on the area of prescriptive analytics, Futurelytics is looking to solve another specific problem in enterprise IT: the fact that big data has up to now been less accessible by small businesses.
Is the IBM Watson collaboration with healthcare big data models up to this task?
Case in point, Sentieo recently wonked out on big data to come up with some pretty powerful ideas.
CSR focuses on data literacy as well as interrogating the world of "big data," working to open up new areas of research and inquiry with advanced design tools to help scholars, students as well as our collaborators and audiences, to understand cities worldwide past, present, and future.
As a result, we now know quite a lot about the ways the NSA and its overseas franchises have mastered "big data" technology to hoover up our metadata and monitor our clickstreams (which means, by the way, that there's no such thing as private reading any more – at least for anyone who reads online).
As big data continues to build up and high-speed data analytics evolve proportionally, the major challenge will be refining all this data.
If we want big data to help scale up sustainable practices and choices, and serve the common good, we have to adopt policies to channel it in that direction.
Analytics tools are opening up big data to people without specialised skills.
TECHCRUNCH Travel Data Start-Up Attracts $2.1 Million | Duetto Research, a "big data" start-up that plans to collect consumer demand information from travel companies, raised a round of seed money from various travel investors, TechCrunch reports.
And third, a new optimism is currently emerging in parts of science that new methods in information technology, modelling, and, above all, enormous and increasingly connectable data bases (big data) open up new ways of prognostic access to the future – the aforementioned dramatic findings would be obsolete if this would work out.
