Tumblr serving 120m people, 15 billion pageviews a month
'Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month.'See it on...
View ArticleShift Index 2011: Business as (un)usual means forgetting yesterday, imagining...
The Shift Index 2011, published just over a month ago, shows that while there has been a modest improvement in the rate of return on assets (ROA) over the past couple of years as the downturn eases up,...
View ArticleBig Data's grass-roots revolution
Big Data is big business, but that also means there are more resources for the grassroots hackers who often change the world.See it on Scoop.it, via Big, Big Data
View ArticleBig Data: the ultimate medical textbook
'Patient-derived data is garnered from multiple sources. Clinical records, claims analysis, and direct remote patient monitoring. It is digestible both on a micro and hugely macro level, with benefits...
View ArticleThe Big Data connection between poverty and COPD
Credit ratings company Experian has ranked every English local authority by a set of key poverty indicators including greatest likelihood to contain households at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary...
View ArticleIs Big Data just big hype?
'How much is there really to all this big data talk? Is it all about putting new labels on existing product offerings, as some would contend? Or is it the diametrically opposed view, a bunch of...
View ArticleHow Twitter is doing its part to democratize big data
'Twitter has been on a tear lately when it comes to open sourcing big-data tools. The latest two are Cassie, a client for managing Cassandra clusters, and Scalding, a MapReduce framework for...
View ArticlePublic health insights, hidden in plain sight
'Any single Tweet may seem insignificant, but taken together billions of Tweets can unlock insights to our public health. Michael J. Paul and Mark Dredze analyzed two billion Tweets for relevance to...
View ArticleBig Data: if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product
Jerry Michalski write: 'I love big data, and not just because of my background in econometrics. A few things to love about it include: * It’s helping solve big problems.Early detection of epidemics....
View ArticleThe future is quantified: on the convergence of trends
Angela Dunn (@blogbrevity) reflects on how social, mobile, Big Data and the Internet of Things come together will shape the future.See it on Scoop.it, via Big, Big Data
View ArticleSuper-convergence: NIH, Amazon and genomes - in the cloud
Amazon and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that the complete 1000 Genomes Project is being made available on Amazon Web Services as a public data set.See it on Scoop.it,...
View ArticleHealthcare visualisation maps disease prevalence across America
John Burn-Murdoch writes: Regional differences in healthcare have been mapped time and again during the recent rise of online data-visualisation, but this effort, from the folks at AdAge, presents a...
View ArticleHealthStartup III: Big Data - call for startups
HealthStartup Europe has announced the third edition of HealthStartup, to be held this June in Nijmegem, The Netherlands: 'The theme of this edition is Big Data; therefore we’re looking for startups...
View ArticleHow Big Data in health can change medicine
Leslie A. Saxon, MD writes: 'I think about the world in a few years and imagine owning and sharing health data just like we can share our life on social networks. What will billions of heart beats show...
View ArticleMobile now accounts for 10% of Internet usage worldwide, double that of 2010
Mobile now accounts for 10 percent of all Internet usage worldwide, after the rise in demand and ownership of smartphones and tablets saw the proportional use of the mobile Web more than double over...
View ArticleText mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?
Researchers push for end to publishers' default ban on automated computer scanning of tens of thousands of papersSee it on Scoop.it, via Big, Big Data
View ArticleText mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?
Researchers push for end to publishers' default ban on automated computer scanning of tens of thousands of papersSee it on Scoop.it, via Big, Big Data
View ArticleBig Data + Healthcare = Big Win | DataStax
With last year’s McKinsey report saying that the value big data brings to healthcare and related companies is $300B, it’s no surprise that healthcare IT leaders are moving rapidly towards the adoption...
View ArticleBetter medicine, brought to you by big data
Slowly but surely, health care is becoming a killer app for big data. Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and...
View ArticleDiscovery in the age of Big Data
The rapid growth of data creation and collection has driven the need for big data solutions at many organizations. As enterprises look to innovate products and services at a faster pace and improve...
View ArticleSalesforce.com goes for social big data with radian6 updates
Salesforce.com has updated its Radian6 social media monitoring software with the introduction of Insights, expanding analysis beyond sentiment to include intent, demographics and online influence. The...
View ArticleYour laptop can now analyze big data
Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have devised a framework for running large-scale computations for tasks such as social network or Web search analysis efficiently on a single...
View Article'We won’t have the human or technological capacity to analyze Big Data...
“A lot of 'Big Data' today is biased and missing context, as it's based on convenience samples or subsets,” said Dan Ness, principal research analyst at MetaFacts “We're seeing valiant, yet misguided...
View ArticleShould Facebook's facial recognition features be opt-in only?
Facebook's use of facial recognition technology took heat from Sen. Al Franken and other members of the Senate during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday.U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) grilled Facebook...
View ArticleBig Data: the key to solving healthcare's data problems?
Lorraine Lawson writes: 'Oracle recently released a report noting, among other things, that healthcare isn’t prepared to manage Big Data. That’s hardly shocking, since healthcare seems largely inept at...
View ArticleDigital health data will improve care and spur debate
Francis Koster writes: In 1854, Dr. John Snow started treating victims of cholera in London. More than 500 people died in the first week the disease surfaced. Desperate to figure out what was causing...
View ArticleWhat a big data business model looks like
The rise of big data is an exciting — if in some cases scary — development for business. Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big...
View ArticleAt the intersection of the quantified self movement and big data
As the quantified self movement expands, so too will the likelihood that patients will want to share their information with physicians.See it on Scoop.it, via Big, Big Data
View ArticleResearchers develop battery-free communication tech for Internet of Things...
"Thinking ahead to a world where hundreds of millions of wireless sensors are embedded in consumer electronics and mobile health devices, researchers are developing a new technology that would use...
View ArticleTurning big data into better health outcomes
Population health management is a multifaceted, many-layered endeavor that nevertheless has a common theme: the need for data and the ability to mine it for actionable information. A broad spectrum of...
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