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If Big Data were a person, who would it be? What would they look like? Antropologist for Intel, Genevieve Bell, attempts to describe this hypothetical person. 
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A company called the Climate Corporation was formed in 2006 by two former Google employees who wanted to make use of the vast amount of free data published by the National Weather Service on heat and precipitation patterns around the country.
We took 60 years of crop yield data, and 14 terabytes of information on soil types, every two square miles for the United States, from the Department of Agriculture,” says David Friedberg, chief executive of the Climate Corporation, a name WeatherBill started using Tuesday. “We match that with the weather information for one million points the government scans with Doppler radar — this huge national infrastructure for storm warnings — and make predictions for the effect on corn, soybeans and winter wheat.
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As television becomes more digital social media will continue to play an increasingly important role in how consumers discover and engage with various forms of content, including TV.
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Here's how four organizations -- the Library of Congress, Mazda, Nielsen and Amazon.com -- manage their massive data stores.
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Former LinkedIn chief scientist DJ Patil shares advice on turning large-scale data into useful products.
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Radical customization, constant experimentation, and novel business models will be new hallmarks of competition as companies capture and analyze huge volumes of data. Here’s what you should know. A McKinsey Quarterly Strategy article.
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Big Data means big file sharing. Enter: Aspera
From its roots in the media and entertainment market, Aspera is targeting the new offering to address the growing need for efficient "big data" transfer in industries ranging from defense to pharmaceuticals. Its first product, locally installed server software with an associated client application, amounted to little more than an FTP replacement--FTP 2.0 if you will, albeit one with sizable benefits, including orders-of-magnitude increases in throughput, in-flight AES encryption, and bandwidth-usage controls. But it's aimed at businesses with the IT resources and mega-file volume to justify purchasing yet another piece of server software and distributing another unfamiliar client application to end users. Smaller businesses that can't go that route but still need to collaborate on large data sets were out of luck--until now.
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A surveillance society is not only inevitable, it's worse. It's irresistible to corporations.
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Cloud-based DNA-sequencing specialist DNAnexus has closed a $15 million second round led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. Elsewhere, we learned Wednesday that agribusiness giant Monsanto has deployed Cloudant’s NoSQL database as the underpinning of the company’s genomics system. Big data technologies, it seems, can now include biotech — and genomics, specifically — among their many killer apps.
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'Big data,' digital tools may predict futureSan Francisco ChronicleThe most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of "big data" will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior - enabling them to predict political...
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Alyssa Henry, VP of Amazon’s AWS Storage Services, gave one example of how Amazon uses its cloud storage and processing power to handle one issue that is little thought about but vital to its overall profitability: combatting warehouse theft.
To determine which items are most likely to be stolen, Amazon stores the product catalog data in S3, which ends up having more than 50 million updates a week. The team spins up Amazon compute clusters every 30 minutes, crunch the data, and the data is fed back to the warehouse and website. At the center of the service is the new Elastic Map Reduce, a new hosted Hadoop framework running on AWS that lets customers spin up the equivalent of a supercomputer for processing big data.
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Big Data’s big questions, explored in a chat with Todd Walter, CTO of Teradata.
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“There’s a change happening, driven by unprecedented volumes and velocities of
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