Safiye Celik, Josh Russell, Matt Kaeberlein and Su-In Lee. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 50 million people ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

This post is brought to you by Comcast Business Class . There’s a lot of big talk about “Big Data,” but it’s difficult to understand exactly what it all means. When you begin tossing around high-level ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking for people to help answer the fundamental questions surrounding big data. NIST released the first draft of its Big Data Interoperability ...

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A new series of execution frameworks have recently been added to the Hadoop ecosystem, including Spark, Tez, Flink, Storm and Samza, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. As such, it’s ...

Microsoft is upping its commitment to the open-source Apache Spark big-data processing engine. At this week's Spark Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft officials will be talking up Microsoft's support ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hold the key to humanity's future existence and growth. In a bid to optimize the implementation of these SDGs, Professor Peng Gong's team from ...

There are three buzzwords that, if we had our way, would be stricken completely from the world: “cloud,” “the Internet of Things,” and “big data.” Each of them was coined in an attempt to elegantly ...