As more businesses rely on big data to improve their operations, the demand for skilled data professionals has reached unprecedented levels. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ...

As businesses continue to harness Big Data to drive innovation, customer engagement and operational efficiency, they increasingly find themselves walking a tightrope between data utility and user ...

Most big data predictions focus on the potential to revolutionize how agencies do business. In 2012, the White House allocated $200 million to big data initiatives, and a year later, a Government ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform ...

Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

In a long-promised report, the Federal Trade Commission indicates that it will use its existing regulatory playbook to target firms that use big data to discriminate against consumers. In a ...

After John Kerry lost a very winnable election in 2004, Democrats were worried that Republicans had gained an almost insurmountable lead in both technology and data analysis. “Progressive technology ...