The goal of Big Data (think petabytes and exabytes) is to help businesses understand how large groups of people act, what they respond to, what they'll buy. Kind of like, if you'll forgive the example ...

The term “big data” is practically synonymous with large-scale software projects and enterprise-wide implementations. The more you read about it, the more you might believe that such pricey, ...

As you may have realized by now, Facebook can’t be trusted with your data, and has been caught out time and time again letting it leak out to places it shouldn’t. If you can’t quite bring yourself to ...

Back when I was working at the advertising agency JWT, one of our clients—a U.S. Marine Corps colonel—said something that has stuck with me ever since. “Look,” he said, “if I’m on a battlefield trying ...

Every year, the analyst firm Gartner publishes between 90 and 100 "Hype Cycles" with insight on about 1,900 different technologies. The Hype Cycle above is the one for Emerging Technologies for 2012 ...

You are not feeling well, so you visit your friendly family doctor. He puts you in a new electronic scanner and generates 28 trillion measurements of your temperature all over the surface of your body ...

This article is part of the collection: The Data Workout: How It’s Impacting Teaching and Learning. Mention big data in a grade level or team meeting of teachers, and you’ll often hear a cacophony of ...

Nearly every industrial facility has an opportunity to create value from collected and stored big data by implementing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and other operational improvement ...

The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District outside Phoenix looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. On one side of the room, students wearing special ...

Ricky oversees and leads the editorial team for BizTech magazine. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, superhero lover and eternally curious. The ability to capture levels of data previously ...

Chances are good that you have at least one friend who tracks calories, workouts, or books read. But do you know anyone who puts out an annual report of those numbers in exquisite, visual detail?