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Big Data: United Nations Offers Big Data Standard, but Can it Gain Traction?

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to Big Data one thing that’s been missing is standards.  There is a myriad of products but interoperability isn’t a high priority design feature. Frank Walton, Faculty Member at City College of New York, says that “there’s chaos

Data Algebra: A More Rigorous and Mathematical Approach to Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

Data Algebra is a technique that some are saying can abstract away much of the grunge and headaches caused by many of the current tools and make managing data, especially Big Data, much easier to do.  Data algebra is a mathematical

Big Data: Lack of Right Skill Sets Trip Up Many Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is on the top of the radar for many businesses, and there are plenty of tools being sold to help collect and analyze massive amounts of data.  But also topping the list of challenges for these businesses is a

Big Data: Market on Target to Exceed $50 billion by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data, particularly Big Data software, is on target to become a $50 billion business by 2019.  IDC reports that Big Data as an industry is growing at a 23 percent growth rate. A forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC)

Big Data and Nomadic Computing: Speeding up Analytics of Complex Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are developing ways to speed up analytics processing of massive data sets.  One of the techniques developed by the university team is called nomadic computing.