There have been a lot of discussions regarding the concept of a ‘Smart City’ for quite some time now. ‘Cities’ are now being considered ‘Future Smart Cities’.  But, wait! What’s the whole concept of smart cities? Theoretically, smart cities can transform the lives of people at numerous levels, such as less garbage, no pollution, energy savings and a lot more. Though the idea at first seems very appealing, the actual implementation of the concept has always been a massive hurdle because of a…

Over years, a crucial part of data-gathering behavior has revolved around what other people think.  With the constantly growing popularity and availability of opinion-driven resources such as personal blogs and online review sites, new challenges and opportunities are emerging as people have started using advanced technologies to make decisions now. Sentiment analysis or opinion mining, refers to the use of computational linguistics, text analytics and natural language processing to identify…

Data is growing every minute, and it’s not showing any sign of stopping.

The pylon holding up the commercial enterprise of today is information – and it’s been the same way for decades. Petabytes and Exabytes of data racing through the information expressway of the 21^st century, however have companies across the world scurrying to assimilate the most audacious datasets possible – all in the hope of gleaning that extra insight, that extra edge, over the others in…