The advent and pervasive nature of big data and what it means for science is being realized every day. This meeting focused on how big data is changing the way we do science, looking particularly at ...

Big data refers to large and diverse collections of data that cannot be managed by traditional data processing tools. Although the need to manage large data sets goes back to the 1960s and 1970s, it ...

Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified, new UCLA-led research finds. Databases frequently used for medical research ...

Over at IBM’s Big Data Hub, James Kobielus writes that while Big data has value, the stewardship of that information also has a “disvalue” with business, legal, and compliance risks. The chief risk ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform ...

The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...