Fixing The Recruiting Process Using Games And Big Data

Interesting article and podcast from +Forbes by +Jacob Morgan.  The podcast in an interview of the CEO of Knack, Guy Halfteck.

How the big-data revolution can help design ideal cities

Interesting article from +The Globe and Mail.  There are sensors everywhere collecting data, unnoticed. Data on how you move through space – on foot, on bike, in a car, in public transit. How much water and electricity you use, and when; how much garbage you produce and where it goes. Data on things we haven’t yet imagined. And these reams and reams of information will allow us to not only understand the city better but improve it

Will Hadoop Kill the Enterprise Data Warehouse?

Interesting article from +Data Informed discusses how Hadoop has been gaining popularity as a business intelligence solution plus the number of data analytics solutions offering Hadoop is growing exponentially. What does this mean for the traditional data warehouse?

IBM boosts University of Florida’s Big Data capabilities

From OSCALA.COM this article describes how the University of Florida received a donation from IBM Tuesday that will help push it toward its pre-eminence goal of becoming a leading institution in Big Data research.

Horizon among backers in latest round of funding for cancer care platform COTA

This news article describes how Horizon Healthcare are going to use a big data platforn designed by practising oncologists to deliver real-time clinical outcomes data and cost analysis for cancer care to support health care’s new value-based reimbursement model.

Great to see another good use for big data.

What you missed in Big Data: major changes afoot from Hadoop to Oracle

Article containing some recent news stories that affect the big data world.

Certainly the money these days is in services and what you can provide to customers so the various alliances described all make economic sense.

Five Data Management Practices IT Needs to Better Support Data Driven Organizations

Interesting blog by +Isaac Sacolick which covers what data management IT practices and services are essential to establishing or scaling a big data analytics program.

I agree with the point covering Provide Data Warehouse and ETL Services - most organisations are slow and cumbersome and to load data quickly and easily based on a support type ticket would not be a simple matter - to map and merge it in such a way that it was integrated with the existing data requires the kind of skill that is often sadly lacking in organisations.