Volume, velocity and variety of weather had hit Chicago on Wednesday but the Blackhawks had won in triple overtime and the sky was blue for us when the Big Data Tour stopped at Spiaggia Restaurant downtown on Thursday morning. It was a terrific audience — and the first one I can say that had gender parity. […]
Our first stop on the Big Data Nation tour was Cincinnati and it was a treat. Held at the Great American Ball Park, it was a glorious 80-degree, picture perfect day. The lineup (on Big Data) was superb: David Steiner, Research Scientist, LexisNexis Pat Conniff, Dir of Web Hosting, Cengage Learning Sriham Mohan, Prof Advanced […]
I came across this blog post on LinkedIn yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting counterpart to my colleague Amir’s recent post on whether size matters in regard to “Big Data.” The author is Demian Hess, from Avalon Consulting (a MarkLogic partner, who has built some very cool stuff on top of our database), […]
High-profile hacks and cyber espionage by nation states (or those working on their behest) have been in the spotlight of late. But a far more insidious computer threat lurks much closer to home: criminals perpetrating fraud. According to a 2011 report by public accounting firm UHY Advisors, fraud is a whopping $1 trillion dilemma in […]