Behold the ever expanding rings of big data, tech’s most overhyped sector. I say overhyped, yet demand is fierce for software, hardware and consulting services that help companies process and store ...

It’s no surprise that the staggering amount of information being generated by humans and machines is transforming businesses of all shapes and sizes, but sometimes visualizing the numbers can help us ...

A visualization of thousands of Wikipedia edits that were made by a single software bot. Each color corresponds to a different page. * Image: Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kate Hollenbach ...

Last month I talked about how the initial high of being able to capture and manipulate large volumes of data is fading and that we are collectively looking toward what is coming next. A significant ...

While the idea of Big Data has been around for years, the conceptualizing of the concept has more recently floated to the forefront of both consumers and enterprises. InfoSys has put together a visual ...

Visualized launched its inaugural data visualization event in New York City this week at The Times Center. Though not exclusively a business conference, the business implications of Visualized were ...

The Graduate Center at CUNY is no stranger to public-friendly data visualizations, with professors releasing projects like Phototrails and Selfiecity which have made academic research on cultural ...

In this special guest feature, Ragi Burhum, CEO and Cofounder of AmigoCloud, a mapping platform, offering collaborative mobile applications and BigGeodata analysis, discusses how we live in a world ...

As with cloud computing, Big Data is a hot topic around the business right now. Expectations for what it can achieve often reach into the stratosphere. At the same time, the overwhelming amount of ...

Big data is not hype and its importance and impact will be more far-reaching than the Internet, says an American journalist tackling the subject in a new photobook. Rick Smolan who is working on "The ...

EXASOL, a high-performance in-memory analytic database developer, and PATH, an international nonprofit organization and global leader in health and innovation, announced a partnership to support the ...