Analytics

Why businesses should focus on wide data, not big data

Data doesn't have to be big to provide your organization with important insights. True insight lies at the intersection of different data sets.

The rise of the chief data officer

As CIOs become overwhelmed by IT demands, chief data officers are stepping in to serve as a centralized point of data governance.

Lawmakers target data brokers in privacy bill

BaseX: Free, open source XML wrangling

Working with XML data can be hard but BaseX makes it way simpler

Salesforce, SAP to get a shot of IoT data

Juniper loses CIO to VMware

Iyer tapped to replace Scott, USA's new CIO

CIOs have to learn the new math of analytics

Microsoft brings machine learning to Azure

Microsoft rolls out Hadoop-based Big Data analytics and an open source analytics platform for Azure.

California firefighters battle blazes with data from the cloud

Crews on the ground use mobile devices to access digital images and data streams as they plan their strategies for responding to California wildfires.

Yahoo courts developers at its first mobile conference