As Big Data continues to reach larger enterprise adoption, the programming languages that support writing schema and producing Big Data analysis algorithms will rush to keep up. As a result, the open ...

A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

HP has announced the launch of Haven Predictive Analytics, an open-sourced big data platform that it says will bring more machine learning and statistical analytics power to companies dealing with ...

The federal government is devising a national strategy that will guide agencies’ Big Data research and development programs, policies and investments over the next five to 10 years. A draft of the ...

Jim Meyerle is the co-founder of Evolv, a big data company that optimizes workforce performance. As a co-founder at a big data analytics software company, where recruiting talented data scientists and ...

Novartis has teamed up with the University of Oxford to use artificial intelligence to improve drug development. The collaboration will analyze MRI data from 35,000 multiple sclerosis patients and ...

Editor’s Note: This story was updated Sept. 16 to reflect comment from NSF. The National Science Foundation is planning to develop a national network of big data regional innovation hubs. Last week, ...

Six U.S. government agencies will spend more than US$200 million to help the government better organize and analyze large volumes of digital data, in a new “big data” research and development effort ...