Big Data & Analytics News

Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Tim Andrews and Principal Joachim Roski have written an article for the Health Affairs journal discussing potential health policy changes to address big data’s opportunities and challenges in the industry. The company said Tuesday “Creating Value in Health Care Through Big Data: Opportunities and Policy Implications” appears in the journal’s July issue, with Alvarez & Marsal‘s George Bo-Linn contributing […] More

IBM is donating $100 million in big data and analytics software and establishing programs at 100 universities in China as part of the IBM U-100 project to foster a future workforce skilled in big data and analytics. The company said Tuesday that U-100 is an extension of the existing partnership between the company and China’s education ministry and aims to train 40,000 […] More

BAE Systems will contribute $1 million and other forms of support over the next five years to a research center in Adelaide, Australia that is partly funded by the country’s government and other contributions from the defense industry and academia. Personnel at the $88 million Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Center will research and develop tools to help […] More

Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer of Razorsight, says data science is growing its influence in business as companies continue adopting analytics products and finding more applications for insights generated from data. In an interview posted recently on the Data Science Weekly blog, Checco discussed how data science has been turning into a business requirement as a supplement to give […] More

Salesforce.com plans to open fresh data centers in Canada in a move to fulfill the growing cloud computing demand in the country. The new data centers are intended to complement Salesforce’s existing cloud computing services across its customer base in the country, Salesforce.com said Wednesday. “Canada is a critical part of our global strategy and […] More

Urban Insights Associates has formed a new consulting practice that will work to help transit agencies leverage big data and analytic tools to improve commuter service. The Cubic Transportation Systems subsidiary intends to collaborate with industry to manage urban transportation efficiency by harnessing an Apache Hadoop-based data management platform, Urban Insights said Monday. “One of […] More

CenturyLink has built a new multi-megawatt data center in Arizona and plans to establish more storage locations this summer, the Arizona Republic reported Monday. In the early stages of 2014, the company partnered with Phoenix-based software data company IO on the construction of a new data center, one of 56 worldwide, aiming to meet the growing […] More

SAS is working to help the Alabama Medicaid Agency view and consolidate data related to illnesses, treatments and costs. The agency uses SAS Visual Analytics to gather and analyze data from claims and medical electronic data exchange sources, SAS said Tuesday. “Our goal is to capture and analyze data not only to better allocate Medicaid’s […] More