This post originally appeared on O’Reilly Radar ("Why big data is big: the digital nervous system"). It’s republished with permission. By Edd Dumbill Where does all the data in "big data" come ...

The following examples are a condensed version of our recently published Data Harm Record, a running record, to be updated as we learn about more cases. 1. Targeting based on vulnerability. With big ...

China has created a new social credit score system for its 1.3 billion citizens. What are the ethical ramifications of using big data in this way?

Big Data is about the harvesting of raw data from multiple, disparate sources, storing it for use by analytics programs, and using it to derive value from the data in entirely new ways. In other words ...

The Internet of Things and big data are strategic partners, especially in the enterprise. Here are 10 examples of IoT and big data operating symbiotically to get work done.

Big data has expanded to the criminal justice system. In Los Angeles, police use computerized "predictive policing" to anticipate crimes and allocate officers. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., machine ...

Big data is the buzzword we can’t avoid, but for good reason: it’s changing the way a lot of businesses operate, and will continue to do so, especially within the supply chain world.

Using Big Data, as it is commonly known, for official statistics, can fill data gaps, lead to efficiencies in production of statistics, and enhance data accuracy over time and space.

An overarching predictive, mathematical framework for complex systems would, in principle, incorporate the dynamics and organization of any complex system in a quantitative, computable framework.

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture that takes advantage of clustered hardware along with new tools designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. It ...