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Are You Ready For Big Data?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand what they are going to do with big data Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. As a CIO, when we think about big data we are faced with a number of questions having to do with the importance of information technology that we have not had to deal with in the past.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

The Internet and cloud computing have revolutionized the nature of data capture and storage, tempting many companies to adopt a new 'Big Data' philosophy: collect all the data you can; all the time. Big Data is Not Just More Data : That’s because the nature of the data we can now collect has changed.

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Big Data in Healthcare: Sources and Real-World Applications

Altexsoft

In this article, we will explain the concept and usage of Big Data in the healthcare industry and talk about its sources, applications, and implementation challenges. What is Big Data and its sources in healthcare? So, what is Big Data, and what actually makes it Big? Let’s see where it can come from.

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International Women of Hitachi Vantara

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

When she joined, what was then, Hitachi Data Systems-Denmark, we were a solid storage company with 15 -20% market share. Within 5 years, under her leadership, HDS Denmark was able to grow market share to 45-50% and became the number 1 storage vendor in the Danish market. With the help of her Hitachi Manager, she applied to Bo?azici

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

Altexsoft

The biggest star of the Big Data world, Hadoop was named after a yellow stuffed elephant that belonged to the 2-year son of computer scientist Doug Cutting. Source: The Wall Street Journal. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics.

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Precision Medicine: How Healthcare Providers Can Prepare for the Future of Medicine

Altexsoft

It exists on the pages of peer-reviewed medical journals and research papers. Here’s how precision medicine will work: Different types of data about a patient is collected. This can be data from surveys, tests, and wearables. This data is standardized for different systems to understand.

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Machine Learning with Python, Jupyter, KSQL and TensorFlow

Confluent

This can either be built natively around the Kafka ecosystem, or you could use Kafka just for ingestion into another storage and processing cluster such as HDFS or AWS S3 with Spark. New MQTT input data can directly be used in real time to make predictions.