Given a massive amount of data to process, you could consider employing sampling or streaming techniques. Sampling is straightforward, you randomly select samples of your complete original data and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the great ironies of the “big data” revolution is the way in ...

"New multi-year deal integrates Roku's data to fuel Nielsen's measurement suite," Nielsen proclaimed this morning, making me wonder what a "measurement suite" actually is. I've got the in-tabs to ...

Ninety percent of the world’s data has been created in the past few years, and professionals are struggling to translate such data into actionable insights, according to organizers of the online ...

You are not feeling well, so you visit your friendly family doctor. He puts you in a new electronic scanner and generates 28 trillion measurements of your temperature all over the surface of your body ...