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Named Data Networking team issues call for hacks

NDN Hackathon to be held in November in Colorado

By Bob Brown
Oct 6, 2016 1 min
Big Data Network Switches Small and Medium Business
news

Why being a data scientist ‘feels like being a magician’

Three working data scientists describe what their jobs are like

By Katherine Noyes
Oct 6, 2016 7 mins
Big Data IT Skills and Training Internet of Things
news

White House to data scientists: We need you

Data is the key to transforming the nation, U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil said

By Katherine Noyes
Sep 29, 2016 3 mins
Analytics Big Data IT Skills and Training
news

Meet Apache Spot, a new open source project for cybersecurity

The effort taps big data analytics and machine learning for advanced threat detection

By Katherine Noyes
Sep 28, 2016 2 mins
Analytics Big Data Open Source
tip

How UPS delivers predictive analytics

The global shipping company’s BI and big data analytics platform offers increased visibility and control and the capability to identify patterns and movement across its transportation network. For customers this means foul weather won’t blow critical

By CIO staff
Sep 28, 2016 1 min
Analytics Big Data IT Leadership
news

IBM promises a one-stop analytics shop with AI-powered big data platform

It can ingest data faster than any other data platform, IBM said

By Katherine Noyes
Sep 27, 2016 3 mins
Big Data IBM Internet of Things
news

Forget the robocalypse — ‘Homo connecticus’ may be what’s coming

This new species will coexist peacefully with humans, one Turing Award winner says

By Katherine Noyes
Sep 26, 2016 2 mins
Analytics Big Data Enterprise Applications
news analysis

Podium Data wants to offer a complete data wrangling platform

A new player enters the enterprise data management space. Will a Podium data lake prove more valuable than the others?

By Ben Kepes
Sep 26, 2016 4 mins
Big Data Data Center
opinion

The goal of big data: Making the unusual usual

Everyone understands what big data is, but few people understand the full power of data.

By Steve Jones
Sep 22, 2016 4 mins
Analytics Big Data Data Science
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How to protect your mission-critical information

A new report by the Information Security Forum (ISF) outlines the steps you can take to determine your mission-critical information assets &and create customized plans for protecting them.

By Thor Olavsrud
Sep 21, 2016 6 mins
Big Data Compliance Security