actionable information, big data, business strategy, data-driven thinking

How to Approach Big Data: A Beginner’s Guide

There’s a new resource floating around the business community that you’ve never heard of but could make your life a lot easier. More and more corporations are taking advantage of big data. Big data is defined fairly easily — they’re sets of information that are complicated and quite large. Usually, big data is so complex ...

Megan Nichols

Big data.

New Breakthrough In ‘Spintronics’ Could Boost High-Speed Data Technology

Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important emerging field of spintronics — which could lead to a new high-speed energy-efficient data technology. An international team of researchers, including the University of Exeter, has made a revolutionary discovery that has the potential to provide high-speed, low-power usage for some of the world’s most well-used ...

Troy Oakes

data stream

Big Data: What Africa Must and Mustn’t Study From China

China has rapidly grown in the past decade to be one of the most powerful economies in the world. Its standard of life and quality of business services have also improved. Much of this change has been brought about by the efficient use of data. Africa, home to more than 1.2 billion people, can learn ...

Max Lu

Big data.