Colleges: Meet your new skills gap
Big data has arrived. In almost every industry, businesses are generating and capturing exponentially more information than they were just a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, the higher…
Big Data
The rise of Big Data brings tremendous possibilities and frightening perils
Debates are raging about whether big data still holds the promise that was expected or whether it was just a big bust, The Huffington Post reports. The failure…
Hadoop there it is: Big Data tech gaining traction
As companies collect more data on how consumers interact with their businesses, the Hadoop open source storage system is emerging as a key technology for breaking up large…
How a counterterrorism software company hopes to combat dropout rates
For more than 20 years, data analytics company Intelligent Software Solutions has created software to help counter improvised explosive devices (IEDs), assist police officers in preventing crimes, and…
4 Big Data challenges that universities face
The rise of big data and big science have provided universities with an opportunity to work together on ways to technologically manage worldwide research projects, Government Technology reports.…
Growing doubts about Big Data
There’s quite a kerfuffle going on in the world of big data, with a range of prominent articles in the past month suggesting it’s not the analytical holy…
Big Data enters the classroom
With the shift to computerized testing, tablets in the classroom and digitized personal records, schools are collecting more data than ever on how children are doing, The Wall…
For big data, big thinking
The information is vast, the challenges daunting, and the tools statistical. But in the end, Harvard’s new class on big data is as much about people as it…
There’s a Big Data skills gap in higher education
Higher education is overflowing with data points to be parsed, analyzed, and evaluated, but a data-related skills gap could stand in the way of analytics' potential. Data experts…
4 questions every institution needs to answer
According to a new report, there are basic questions institutions, with access to internal data, need to be able to answer—both for themselves and for prospective students and…