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8 iPad Apps That Are Complex, Powerful and Advanced

Most people don't think of the iPad as a high-end computing device. These eight apps prove otherwise.

Nov 20, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.

Nov 19, 2013 3 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Management

6 Software Development Lessons From Healthcare.gov’s Failed Launch

The problems that plagued the launch of Healthcare.gov -- the online data hub and insurance marketplace central to healthcare reform -- will someday fill a book. For now, developers can apply these six lessons from Healthcare.gov's very public f

Nov 18, 2013 11 mins

Developer Government Government IT

3 CIOs Reveal How They Got Started With Predictive Analytics

Want to succeed with predictive analytics? These CIOs say it takes a lot of front-end data work and angst about cultural change.

Nov 18, 2013 4 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence CIO

Which C-Level Executive Will Be the Big Data Champion?

So far, it isnu2019t clear which C-level exec will lead the big-data charge. CIOs, if they want a shot at this job, will need to focus on business innovation, not technology.

Nov 15, 2013 3 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence CIO

What’s Hindering Healthcare IT Innovation (And How That Can Change)

No one disputes the healthcare industry's need to apply technology to the patient care process -- or difficulty of doing it. In that vein, the recent Center for Connected Health Symposium examined innovations that could change care delivery as w

Nov 11, 2013 9 mins

Big Data Healthcare Industry Social Networking Apps

How Many Data Scientists Does the World Really Need?

The buzz is all about 'Big Data' and how best to use it to generate actionable intelligence. To do this, companies will need to hire loads of highly trained, highly paid data scientists -- or will they?

Nov 7, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Careers

Facebook Releases Query Engine to Open Source Community

Facebook has released Presto -- a distributed SQL query engine optimized for running ad-hoc interactive queries on data sources up to petabytes in size -- to the open source community under the Apache license. It says Presto is 10x better than Hive.

Nov 6, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Facebook

12 Recent Technologies That Have Yet to Live Up to Their Hype

How many times has 'the next big thing' in technology turned out to be the next big fail, either because tech companies couldn't explain the product or service or the marketing was premature? Here's a look at today's most ove

Nov 4, 2013 9 mins

Big Data Innovation Small and Medium Business

Facebook, the NSA and the Screwy Ethics of Corporate Analytics

CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle suffered a brutal beating after police broke up an illegal rave next door to his house. The rave attracted hundreds of teens who saw the party invite on Facebook. The incident left Enderle to wonder why Facebook, other s

Nov 1, 2013 6 mins

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