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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

TechCrunch

Zenysis Technologies , a big data startup headquartered in San Francisco and Cape Town, announced today that it has closed $13.3 Jonathan Stambolis launched the company in 2016 to improve how developing countries respond to humanitarian emergencies and help them improve public health. . million seed in 2016 and a $5.8

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The 2016 Big Data Prediction: Which of these two types of organization will you be in?

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Today, there is countless data collected and analyzed by companies. Just a few years ago, that data was useless, now data is collected and used to provide answers and solve problems. As big data use cases continue to evolve, there will be an increasing number of business missions that will be served by new approaches to data.

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Supercomputing Predictions for 2016

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Wondering where supercomputing is heading in 2016? This is something to keep an eye on throughout 2016. Data-Tiering. Cray’s DataWarp products are a few examples of attempts to combine software and hardware innovation around data-tiering. Katie Kennedy. Here are some well informed assessments brought to you by Cray.

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Big Data: Prescription for the Pharmaceutical R&D Plight

Toptal

However, a solution could be data analytics, which enhances and accelerates drug development. This article examines the current state of drug development, and how big data can improve its different components: drug discovery, clinical trial design, and adverse drug reaction detection. billion to bring a single drug to market.

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Embrace grabs a new funding round amid unveiling of new mobile data intelligence software

TechCrunch

Though these same companies have accelerated their digitalization to meet employees and customers where they are — up to 92% of all digital traffic worldwide is done through mobile devices — they lack visibility of this data and how it can be converted into retention and revenue. How to ensure data quality in the era of big data.

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Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists

TechCrunch

, and millions and perhaps billions of calls flung at the database server, data science teams can no longer just ask for all the data and start working with it immediately. Big data has led to the rise of data warehouses and data lakes (and apparently data lake houses ), infrastructure to make accessing data more robust and easy.

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