Faced with the ongoing confusion over the term ‘Big Data,’ here’s a handy – and somewhat cynical – guide to some of the key definitions of big data that you might see out there. The first thing to ...

Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but its definition depends on who's doing the defining; AWS, IBM, and research firms each have their own definitions Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is “Big Data”? Big Data refers to the vast volumes of structured and unstructured data that are too complex and large for ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety.

“Big data” is a big deal these days, but what’s all the fuss about, and what should marketers know about this trend? To help marketers understand the basics of big data and what to expect of it in ...

Most of the past five-ten years' attention has been focused on "big data," especially to fuel data science and machine learning. All of the energy spent on big data obscured something we used to know: ...

The explosive use of big data, predictive analytics and other modeling techniques to help understand and drive outcomes in all types of organizations has significantly increased over the past decade.

Predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies are already transforming policing, helping prioritize who police target, where they patrol, and how they investigate. But police practices will ...