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Big Data and Unstructured Data: Farewell to Data Trapped By Words?

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is information that isn’t stored according to a pre-defined data model.  Unstructured data is text-heavy and the information contained in it has proven to be challenging for computer software to analyze, unlock and to then be able to

Big Data: Marketers See Digital as the Future of their Business

By Dick Weisinger

One area where Big Data is having a major impact is marketing.  A recent report by Terradata profiles with numbers and an infographic the effect Big Data is having on marketing.  The Infographic is available here. The report found that:

Big Data: Hadoop 2.0's YARN Framework enables Real-Time Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop was originally developed primarily as a web crawler for batch indexing the content of web sites.  Big Data analytics applications have adopted Hadoop, but because of its batch nature of the MapReduce algorithm, it isn’t good at interactively querying

Big Data: NIH Funds the Use of Big Data in Biomedical Research

By Dick Weisinger

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced funding aimed at developing Big Data analytic techniques for use with biomedical data.  The funding will be $24 million for each of the next four years and will be used to establish

Performance Computing: Big Data and Analytics Accelerate Adoption of HPC

By Dick Weisinger

The High Performance Computing (HPC) market grew by 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2013 to reach $2.5 billion, up from $2.4 billion in 2012.  Shipments of HPC computers came in at 33,511 units in the first quarter, up