This article comes from CNN Money. It was written by the associate international editor of CNN Money, Charles Riley. If robots are going to steal human jobs and otherwise...
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding”. Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google and emeritus professo...
Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications incl...
Summary: Every year the Strata+Hadoop conference offers a unique opportunity to look into the future and see what trends will dominate our profession in the near term.�...
A blank face is the most common reaction of people when I tell them I work in big data. Most people I meet in my private life haven’t even heard of the term ‘big data...
Bigger is always better, right? Well, not necessarily. Even in the realm of big data, companies and governments are beginning to see the value in a “less is more” app...
If you read our digests, you already know that each week, we publish our picture of the week. Below is a selection from the last few months. By clicking on the link asso...
(A part of this research is published in this CNN report.) Do you know what is common between San Bernardino’s shooting spree and the terrorist attacks in Paris last m...
Big data and its conjoined twin analytics are the business buzzwords of the decade to be sure — and for good reason. Because of advances in technology and computing, we...
Oh, the poor, maligned pie chart. The chart type that gets pushed around and bullied on the data-viz playground more than any other. Randal Olsen of /r/dataisbeautiful ra...