An Extensive Glossary of Big Data Terminology
Big data comes with a lot of new terminology that is sometimes hard to understand. Therefore we have created an…
Is Your Data Secure? [INFOGRAPHIC]
A lot of consumers and organisations are using the cloud and all that data is stored in massive data centers…
A Technical Look at Big Data
Big data can mean a number of things—and guide business decisions in countless ways. It can involve analyzing sheer volumes…
The Center of Analytics Success Takes on Communication Skills
As technical skills such as programming, application development, and “Big Data” infrastructure management take on added importance, it is imperative…
What is R? A New Video on the History, Community and Applications of R [VIDEO]
We meet a lot of R users on our travels, and something we often hear from them is that while…
The Viability of Big Data [INFOGRAPHIC]
The three V’s (Velocity, Volume and Variety) are known for most of the visitors on this platform to describe big…
Big Data and Your Body
A couple of weeks ago we posted about the datafication of everything, with a few examples of what can be…
4 Benefits for the Public Sector when Governments Start Using Big Data
Government services, or the public sector, are known for creating large volumes of data. Big data thus provides plenty opportunities…
The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection
The recent leaks about the NSA’s use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and…
A Visualization of the World’s Largest Data Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade,…
