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"Edward Snowden’s revelation about the National Security Agency’s information-gathering practices alerted the public to the nefarious uses of data collection. Stories pointing to secretive consumer tracking policies and privacy violations from companies like Facebook and Google have stirred further outcries, and education companies are not immune to criticisms either."

Data can be immensely helpful to educators--but anyone who hopes to learn from data must know how to analyze and interpret it.

Big Data management is the systematic organization, administration as well as governance of massive amounts of data. The process includes management of both unstructured and structured data. The primary objective is to ensure the data is of high quality and accessible for business intelligence along with big data analytics applications. To contend with the rapidly growing data … Continue reading What is the effective way to handle Big Data?

"Dimensionality reduction is a critical component of any solution dealing with massive data collections. Being able to sift through a mountain of data efficiently in order to find the key descriptive, predictive and explanatory features of the collection is a fundamental required capability for coping with the Big Data avalanche. Identifying the most interesting dimensions of data is especially valuable when visualizing high-dimensional (high-variety) big data and when telling your data’s story."

"Back in 2015 the federal government passed some pretty controversial metadata retention laws. But due to a legal loophole telecommunications companies like Telstra weren’t required to actually collect and store all of our juicy, juicy data. Until now."

Practical tips to help organizations cross the data divide.

The role and importance of information management and governance in data privacy will be a key success factor for all organizations with EU customers.

Big Data Analytics is a type of analytics executed upon Big Data.descriptive statistics, Statistical modeling, can all be considered as Big Data Analytics.

"A new report from PwC is encouraging higher education to "build capacity and attract more students to" data science and analytics coursework, saying "every major industry" needs these capabilities to thrive."

Hadoop is NOT “Big Data” is NOT Analytics - Perhaps “smart data” ought to replace “big data” for most analytical applications