Safiye Celik, Josh Russell, Matt Kaeberlein and Su-In Lee. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 50 million people ...

A new series of execution frameworks have recently been added to the Hadoop ecosystem, including Spark, Tez, Flink, Storm and Samza, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. As such, it’s ...

The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hold the key to humanity's future existence and growth. In a bid to optimize the implementation of these SDGs, Professor Peng Gong's team from ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

This post is brought to you by Comcast Business Class . There’s a lot of big talk about “Big Data,” but it’s difficult to understand exactly what it all means. When you begin tossing around high-level ...

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement. Some 50 suppliers, 46% of which are small and medium-sized ...