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How big data will save your life

Big data analytics is creating a world where doctors will eventually be able to do a Google-like query on a patients illness and instantly discover how 100,000 other doctors treated their patients. It's also driving new treatments through genomic profiling.

Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.

Forget big data, the value is in 'big answers'

The CTO of Barack Obama's reelection campaign says we need to stop worrying about big data and turn our attention instead to the 'big answers' the data provides. EMC, which made big data news this week, is one tech company that plans to translate big answers into big customer wins.

How to manage big data overload

The nuts and bolts of systems designed storing petabytes (and more) of data that can be easily accessed and analyzed are more complex than the inner workings of your average storage platform. Here's how to handle the data deluge. Insider (registration required)

Big data means big IT job opportunities -- for the right people

As companies embrace big data, they're in the market for high-level strategists and communicators. Do you have the chops to snag a big data job?

Political IT: How campaigns mine the Web - part 2

Advocacy groups and political campaigns have unparalleled access to vast amounts of new and detailed data on voters interests, hobbies, lifestyles and political leanings -- and they're grappling with how to best exploit these vast troves of unstructured data.

Big hopes for big data, survey says

For companies drowning in data, extracting value from all this information is a major IT priority. But success depends on how well customers tackle significant organizational challenges.

Campaign 2012: Mining for voters

Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money.

How to find (and hire) big data pros

Staffing shortages are holding back companies ready to dive into big data. Here are three ways they're coping with the talent gap. Insider (registration required)

The Grill: CME Group's CIO tackles merger integrations, big data

Kevin Kometer started at futures exchange CME group as a lead programmer, but by accepting myriad positions over the past 20 years, he accumulated the knowledge to lead a global company that electronically processes 3 billion futures contracts a year.

Predictive analytics go to work

Predictive analytics projects involve both art and science, but getting started isn't for high rollers only. Here's how to ensure a successful outcome.

Big data, big jobs?

As companies embrace big data, they're in the market for high-level strategists and communicators. Do you have the chops to snag a big data job?

Investing for transformation in 2013

How to maximize the return on your investments in disruptive trends like big data, cloud computing and mobility.

Applying technology to boost customer loyalty

Guesswork no longer cuts it for companies trying to secure customer loyalty. Read how three businesses use analytics software to understand, respond to and even predict buyer behavior.

Which freaking database should I use?

In the era of big data, good old RDBMS is no longer the right tool for many database jobs. Here's a quick guide to choosing among NoSQL alternatives

Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine

As more and more companies use Hadoop to handle big data, anticipation for forthcoming Version 2.0 grows

The Big Data Challenge: How to Develop a Winning Strategy

Big Data is exciting stuff, but don't take my word for it. Ask the Academy of Arts and Sciences, who nominated Moneyball -- a movie about Big Data -- for six Oscars. If Hollywood is on board, you know Big Data has gone mainstream. What's more, Tinsel Town managed to do what most industry commentators haven't: Spin a tale that is both interesting and illustrative of Big Data's transformative potential.

Busting down the info silos

Savvy business leaders are starting to recognize the paybacks of helping all their business groups work from the same data.

Ease Big Data Hiring Pain With Cascading

Finding developers with the skills to create MapReduce jobs in Apache Hadoop is challenging, but you can ease that hiring pain with Cascading, an open source Java application framework for building enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop.