Analytics

Privacy, mobile broadband top tech priorities for FTC, FCC

Chairs of FTC and FCC look ahead to a year that will see continued inquiries into tech firms' data collection practices and an ambitious effort to build out mobile broadband capacity.

Watch what you do with that big data, FTC warns businesses

'We need systems for auditing the proprietary algorithms,' an ACLU attorney says

Microsoft quietly unwraps a big-data analytics platform based on R

Though commonly used for statistics, R 'looks like Cobol to sophisticated developers,' one analyst says

IBM cuts new Watson deals that push it deeper into health

The company said its work with a medical device maker will help diabetics

How the Treasury Department looks to use big data

Secretary Jacob Lew vows to keep the ‘pedal to the metal’ in the waning days of the Obama administration as lawmakers envision a new push for legislation to promote innovation in the tech sector. Specifically, he describes efforts to tap into unconve

Indiegogo launches crowdsourcing for big businesses

Crowdfunding campaigns not only fund R&D, they're a forum for new, consumer-based ideas

The hidden costs of NoSQL

NoSQL is a powerful data model, but perhaps not enough to justify many independent datastores.

How predictive analytics changes the customer conversation

Proving the benefits of medication management platforms

People assume that electronic platforms for medication management will increase prescription adherence. This study intended to prove that assumption once and for all.

10 top big data and analytics stories of 2015

Data and analytics were a hot topic at CIO.com in 2015. Here are the 10 most-viewed big data and analytics stories of the year.