In my last post, I talked about how the Healthcare industry is challenged with improving overall health while not overlooking that one person that could have been treated and healed. Big Data has the potential to ensure that Healthcare does not have to sacrifice one...
I attended a seminar hosted by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Division of Cardiology at UC-San Francisco. It explored the possibilities and challenges that Big Data presents in the area of Healthcare. I attended to learn more about what types of...
If one were to take an objective look – which I did in my most recent report – at Jive Software’s product it would stand up with the best of the Enterprise Social Network products. It is, to put it succinctly, full featured. The single biggest objection to...
(Why would I end a meal with nuts? That phrase never made sense to me.) IBM made some announcements on April 28 related to the Big Data space. Amongst those announcements were: The addition of Big Data/Analytics Services onto the Bluemix development platform –...
Last night, I attended a Meetup hosted by The Hive, an incubator and think tank in the Big Data space. The presentation featured LinkedIn’s use of Big Data visualization tools to support their product development efforts. The speaker, a Senior Data Scientist,...
