Are you ready for a gas station to charge you more when you are running late or your tank is empty? Laws against price gouging typically apply in times of emergencies, for example after Hurricane Katrina. Most of the time there are no rules that limit price discrimination, and there

About two years ago, I started talking to Fortune 500 companies about their use of tools like Apache Hadoop and Spark to deal with big data in their organizations. I specifically sought out these large enterprises because I expected they would all have huge deployments, sophisticated analytics apps, and teams

Allergy sufferers in the U.S. have had a particularly rough time this spring, with April and May pollen levels in New York frequently surging 25% or more above the monthly average for the last three years, according to data from IMS Health Inc. More>>

With a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy, comes a growing demand for stellar data scientists. In fact, as of March 2015, there are over 60,000 job postings for data scientists on LinkedIn, and over 250,000 people listing data science as their profession. More>>

Hey Amazon, can Redshift do this? We know the kinder, gentler, “we play nice with everyone” Microsoft would never egg AWS boss Andy Jassy on like this, but here's the deal: Today at Build 2015, Microsoft executive vice president for cloud and enterprise Scott Guthrie made a whole slew of

'Data-driven transformation' is a hot topic these days, particularly in marketing, which in most organizations is keenly feeling the pressure of data overload. "The reason the emphasis now is on data-driven is because organizations are struggling with absolutely being overwhelmed by data," says Dale Renner, CEO and founder of data

Catching and preventing health care fraud is more important than ever. The industry has undergone massive transformations with breakthroughs like the adoption of online health records, remote patient care and data-driven care. More>>

We live in a data-centric world, and we speak casually about bytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. But now, the amount of data that’s out there has surpassed the terms we’ve previously used to describe it. Instead, Big Data is now the reality.... More>>

The subject of Big Data and the rise of instant analytics has been covered intensively by the world’s media over the past decade or so, it has been hyped to the heavens and praised to the skies.... More>>