Category Archives: Big Data Analytics

Will a Worldwide Healthcare Data Platform Help Fight Future Pandemics?

Posted on June 18, 2020 by

To respond effectively to a global pandemic, governments need to have access to very large volumes of healthcare data, collected over a long period of time with patient privacy protected, and sourced from many locations and populations around the world. … Continue reading →

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Solving Coronavirus with Computer Power and Relevant Data

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

Can human ingenuity assisted by new and emerging technologies overpower Covid-19? Will faster processing of more—and more relevant—data, analyzed with the right models, yield better insights into mitigating the spread of future pandemics, designing effective treatments, and developing successful vaccines? … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Betting on Data Eating the World

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

[July 23, 2109] Data is eating the world. All businesses, non-profits, and governments around the world are now in full digital transformation mode, figuring out what data can do to the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Big Data AI

Posted on January 20, 2020 by

[July 1, 2019] In December 2014, I asked whether we were at the beginning of “the end of the Hadoop bubble.” I kept updating my Hadoop bubble watch (here and here) through the much-hyped IPOs of Hortonworks and Cloudera. The question was whether … Continue reading →

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Data Will Continue Eating the World in the 2020s

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. But one fairly safe prediction is that data will continue eating the world in 2020 and the coming decade. The most important tech trend since the 1990s will no doubt accentuate its presence in our … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Data is Eating the World

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

[June 30, 2019] Data is eating the world. It has been the most important tech trend since the 1990s. But to paraphrase Robert Solow, “You can see data everywhere but in the Internet statistics.” The most astute and influential observers … Continue reading →

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How to Compete with Amazon

Posted on November 13, 2019 by

Data is eating the world and Amazon got it very early on. Twenty years ago, Jeff Bezos wrote in his letter to the shareholders of his $1.64 billion company: “We are doubly-blessed. We have a market-size unconstrained opportunity in an area where … Continue reading →

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Data Is Eating the World Quotable Quotes, 2nd Edition

Posted on September 24, 2019 by

“[Data labeling] is an expanding world, hidden beneath the technology. It is hard to take humans out of the loop”—Mary Gray “The market for data labeling passed $500 million in 2018 and it will reach $1.2 billion by 2023, according … Continue reading →

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Data is Eating the World Quotable Quotes

Posted on August 12, 2019 by

“The power to predict the future is about to emerge. The amount of data will grow by a million times over the next 30 years”—Masayoshi Son, CEO, SoftBank Group @masason “As a FedEx employee in 1996, I was in the … Continue reading →

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The New Breed of Data-Driven Startups: DraftKings and Actifio

Posted on July 26, 2019 by

Data is eating the world. All businesses, non-profits, and governments around the world are now in full digital transformation mode, figuring out what data can do to the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their actions. In the … Continue reading →

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