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How Many Data Scientists Does the World Really Need?

The buzz is all about 'Big Data' and how best to use it to generate actionable intelligence. To do this, companies will need to hire loads of highly trained, highly paid data scientists -- or will they?

Nov 7, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Careers

Facebook Releases Query Engine to Open Source Community

Facebook has released Presto -- a distributed SQL query engine optimized for running ad-hoc interactive queries on data sources up to petabytes in size -- to the open source community under the Apache license. It says Presto is 10x better than Hive.

Nov 6, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Facebook

12 Recent Technologies That Have Yet to Live Up to Their Hype

How many times has 'the next big thing' in technology turned out to be the next big fail, either because tech companies couldn't explain the product or service or the marketing was premature? Here's a look at today's most ove

Nov 4, 2013 9 mins

Big Data Innovation Small and Medium Business

Facebook, the NSA and the Screwy Ethics of Corporate Analytics

CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle suffered a brutal beating after police broke up an illegal rave next door to his house. The rave attracted hundreds of teens who saw the party invite on Facebook. The incident left Enderle to wonder why Facebook, other s

Nov 1, 2013 6 mins

Facebook Government Government IT

Emergence of the Chief Data Officer

The crowded C suite

Oct 31, 2013 2 mins

Big Data CIO

5 World Problems Too Big for Big Data

Despite advances in computing power, storage and analytics technology, some challenges are still too big for big data. Here's a look at five such problems -- and what it will take to solve them.

Oct 31, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Government Healthcare Industry

Dunkin’ Brands Uses Analytics to Predict Global Threats

The coffee-and-doughnuts chain operates in 60 countries, so it uses a threat-assessment tool to keep employees safe during international conflicts.

Oct 31, 2013 1 min

Business Intelligence Data Management Risk Management

Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Advances in technology, not to mention government mandates, are forcing healthcare to take analytics seriously. Here's a look at the current (and future) analytics landscape in healthcare, along with 10 real use cases of analytics in action.

Oct 30, 2013 8 mins

Analytics Big Data Healthcare Industry

Do You Believe CMOs Will Spend More on Tech Than CIOs by 2017?

Gartner's prediction has gotten attention during 2013

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins

Big Data Budgeting

10 SharePoint Success Stories

Historically, Microsoft SharePoint has been associated with intranets and content management. But customers are increasingly using it to enable a much broader range of capabilities from communications to business intelligence, enterprise search, even

Oct 28, 2013 7 mins

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