Big Data & Analytics News

Sapient Government Services, a Publicis.Sapient subsidiary, and Luminoso Technologies have forged a marketing alliance that aims to use artificial intelligence technology to help federal customers transform data into actionable insights. SGS said Tuesday Luminoso’s software utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to analyze text data and transform language into mathematical vectors using the ConceptNet open-source semantic knowledge base, which was developed at […] More

The Ventura County sheriff’s office in California has selected Wynyard Group‘s crime analytics and informant management software to facilitate situational awareness and officer safety as part of intelligence-led policing initiatives. Wynyard said Tuesday its technology works to combine data from multiple sources, analyze the data to generate actionable intelligence such as crime trends and relay the information to police officers to inform […] More

Reuters has unveiled a new tool that works to determine the likelihood of a candidate to win or lose the U.S. presidential election through analysis of voting patterns based on demographics and candidates’ levels of support in an online survey. The “States of the Nation” tool is backed by an online poll by Reuters and […] More

Esri has unveiled a collection of web maps that displayed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s forecast streamflow data for the continental U.S. Esri said Thursday the maps combine the company’s ArcGIS functionality with NOAA’s National Water Model data to provide interactive views of current and predicted water system behaviors through multiscale web map applications designed […] More

The George Washington University School of Business incorporates SAS technology, coursework and expertise into academic programs in an effort to help address a growing demand for analytics talent. Some SAS professionals work with GWSB to develop curriculum and instructional  materials as well as teach in the school’s master of science in business analytics program, the company said Tuesday. “Our business analytics program […] More

The State Department has contracted a subsidiary of SOS International to help monitor and analyze traditional and social media in Kabul, Afghanistan in support of the U.S.’ diplomatic mission there. Exovera will use the cloud-based media analysis software EV3 to execute the five-year contract, SOS International said Wednesday. SOS International unveiled EV3 in 2016 and the software gathers unstructured […] More

CyrusOne has purchased a Sterling, Virginia-based shell building that the company intends to develop into a data center facility as part of efforts to help address customer demand for hyperscale computing services. The 129,064-square-foot building at 511 Shaw Road is close to CyrusOne’s other data centers in Sterling, the company said Thursday. “Given the unprecedented speed of our massively modular engineering capabilities, […] More

The University of Maryland and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have forged a strategic partnership to give the higher education and research communities access to high-performance computing resources. UMD and the Army aim to help students, professors, engineers and researchers use technologies designed to assist in scientific discovery and innovation, the College Park-based university said Friday. The […] More

Siemens and the Energy Department-led Jump online crowdsourcing community have partnered to crowdsource building technology ideas that could support interaction between personal smart devices and public facilities. The company said Monday the Jump challenge seeks concepts, use cases and business models that could help building occupants in commercial, public or corporate spaces to achieve the level of device interconnectivity […] More

Deloitte‘s advisory cyber risk services business and Cray have partnered to develop a subscription-based analytics service intended to help organizations discover, examine and respond to cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics offering works to help government customers generate threat intelligence reports that include information on potential threat vectors, Deloitte said Wednesday. “Instead of reviewing every component of an agency’s internal enterprise, we are trying to […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles River Analytics a follow-on contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop a tool for the military branch to generate probability forecasts of weather. Charles River Analytics said Tuesday it aims to produce big data-based machine learning software for an extended-range weather prediction tool through the Climatological Observations for Maritime Prediction and Analysis Support Service initiative. The company will […] More