Analytics

CIOs: Get to Know Your Algorithms

Go have a friendly chat with your best data engineer, says Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson. Then you'll understand why the almighty algorithm merits your attention.

Big Data Suite Goes Open Source

Pivotal is releasing its data lake architecture components, including Greenplum DB, GemFire and HAWQ, to the open source community.

Big Data Leaders and Users Unite Around Standardization

A group of Hadoop and big data application vendors, system integrators and end-users are forming the Open Data Platform association to create a common core big data kernel to eliminate fragmentation in the space.

NeCTAR Research Cloud gets $1.5m capacity boost

One-fifth of organisations store more than 1 petabyte of data

To Make or Buy: Considerations When Kicking Off a Data Analytics Program

How to determine whether to build and in-house team or outsource.

Teradata Unveils Big Data Apps

Pre-built big data app templates will allow data scientists to create purpose-built apps to answer specific business questions for business users.

How hospitals are using big data analytics to research paediatric cancer

8 Analytics Trends to Watch in 2015

Business analytics are becoming 'the air companies breathe and the oceans in which they swim,' according to Deloitte Analytics. These eight trends will dominate the analytics field in 2015.

What the Seahawks Bad Call Teaches Us About Decision-Making

The Seattle Seahawks bad play call in the Super Bowl made CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle realize that the biggest problem that analytics and AI will have to overcome is that we put more effort into looking smart than we do into winning the game.