Analytics

A data-stuffed turkey on your Thanksgiving table

In a digitalized world, even your Thanksgiving meal is driven by data. It’s not science fiction: here's the proof

Teradata brings MapR Hadoop into the data warehouse

HP plugs the Vertica analytics engine into Hadoop

HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop promises to pair the reliability of SQL with the scalability of Hadoop

When data drives sports

The advent of big data technologies and data science now makes it possible, and necessary, for every team to analyze their opponent’s every weakness

In-memory computing brings real-time intelligence to operational systems

In-memory data grids enable instant responses to financial transactions, shopping cart contents, monitoring streams, and other operational data

The canary in the data mine is dead

Even well intentioned data mining can leave a damaging trail, so what's a developer to do?

Workday plots wave of predictive analytic apps

Series of specialized apps aims to help HR and financial management retain top workers and make more accurate forecasts

Forecast 2015: IT spending on an upswing

As purse strings loosen up, CIOs blend innovation into 2015 IT budgets, but security and cost containment remain top priorities

IBM drills into the energy industry for cognitive computing advances

A new partnership with Spanish energy company Repsol offers a chance to test new kinds of decision-making applications

Google AI project apes memory, programs (sort of) like a human

DeepMind researchers' Neural Turing Machines attempt to emulate the brain's short-term memory