The Ripple Effect of the Police Open Data Initiative (ODI)
Late last year, President Obama launched the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, an effort that’s aimed at improving law enforcement and community relations...
Navigating Big Data with Ad-hoc Visual Data Discovery
Data is at the very heart of analytics. Besides V’s of big data—Volume, Velocity, Variety and Veracity—it is equally important to be mindful of...
How Big Data Has Fundamentally Changed Research
One of the greatest benefits offered by the volume and velocity of big data is how it provides enormous quantities of information to people...
Introduction to Spark, Featuring InsideBIGDATA’s Daniel Gutierrez
In the past year, big data players have increasingly adopted the Apache Spark distributed computing architecture. This growth has been fueled by several innovative...
Democratizing Big Data with Interactive Visual Analytics
Decision-makers and knowledge workers alike are constantly challenged with complex business problems. Most of these challenges emanate from the fact that we live in...
See How Products, Libraries, and Frameworks for Streaming Analytics Are Categorized and Compared
Streaming Analytics processes data in real time while it is in motion. This concept and technology emerged several years ago in financial trading, but...
Making Advanced Analytics Work for Your Organization
Big data and analytics continue to generate lots of interest among senior executives who see the potential to use data-driven insights to transform the...
How to Navigate Big Data with Ad Hoc Visual Discovery
Now, a well-known fact is that big data can provide big value to any business. However, to glean insights from so many new sources...
The Data Analytics of Halloween–2015 Costume Edition
On All Hallows Eve, little yellow Minions, pint-size Yodas, and pretty pink princesses–not to mention ghosts, goblins, rock stars, witches, superheroes, and cowboys–will roam...
5 Ways Analytics Can Speed up Your Data Analysis for Business Insights
Business Intelligence (BI) tools have long been valuable in helping deliver a view into the business to aid decision-making. The approach BI tools take...