Berto Jongman: Big Data Bandwidth Needs for Internet of Things Will Overwhelm Industrial Era Data Centers

Big data from the Internet of Things may create big challenge for data centres: report Data centre bandwidth requirements may not cope with the Internet of Things, according to Gartner Hamish Barwick CIO, 18 March 2014 Devices that use the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate big data that needs to be processed and analysed …

BUCKY 2.0: Y Worlds at VIMEO [Big Data Cross-Cultural Multi-Disciplinary Visualization with World Brain Educational Potential]

Y Worlds – a community in progress organized about ways to better understand, better communicate, and better organize every aspect of our complex lives. This is NOT a tech on tech project. This is totally focused on the humans, on eliciting from each human in the network real-time interaction, and on educating humans one interaction …

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data Tired, Limited Data Wired

Advice on Making the Most of Limited Data The article How To Do Predictive Analytics with Limited Data from Datameer on Slideshare suggests that Limited Data may replace Big Data in import. The idea of “semi-supervised learning” is presented to handle the difficulties associated with creating predictions based on limited data such as expense and …

Arnold: Topology and Big Data Making Shapes

Topology and Big Data Making Shapes The article titled Lawrence Livermore Explores the Shape of Data, Expanding Query-Free Analytics on GCN delves into the work of the Livermore National Laboratory in partnership with Ayasdi Inc. Using homegrown technology, the lab tackles big data to analyze various areas of research such as climate change, national security …

Robin Good: Academic Torrents = Big Data + Open Access

Big Data: Large Dataset Curation & Sharing with AcademicTorrents AcademicTorrents is a new web service which allows any organization owning large datasets (no size limits) to easily distribute them without needing a dedicated infrastructure. The brainchild of Joseph Cohen and Henry Lo, two PhD students working at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Academic Torrents facilitates the …

Jean Lievens: The number crunch: Will Big Data transform your life – or make it a misery?

The number crunch: Will Big Data transform your life – or make it a misery? From www.independent.co.uk – January 20, 9:11 PM The age of Big Data is upon us. Fuelled by an incendiary mix of overblown claims and dire warnings, the public debate over the handling and exploitation of digital information on an astronomically …