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Cloudera Co-Founder Mike Olson shares his insights on the present landscape and possible future of big data and the data management industry. In conversation with Ping Li of Accel Partners, Olson also discusses the advantages of building a business on top of open source technologies and the many surprising benefits of competition.

Mike Olson, Ping Li - Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space

Obama's Affordable Care Act promotes the digitization of millions of medical records to measure outcomes and contain costs. Big Data may also help doctors better understand many diseases, who's most likely to get them and what the best treatments might be. It also makes the most intimate kind of personal information available to the government, insurance and drug companies — even prospective employers.  We look at the pros and cons.
Warren Olney hosts To the Point with guests, Joel Dudley: Mount Sinai Hospital  Nortin Hadler: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iya Khalil: GNS Healthcare and Deborah Peel: Patient Privacy Rights

To the Point: Big Data and Healthcare

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Author: Jim Meyerle

3 ways to build a winning big data research and development team

Google engineer Tyler Akidau on the evolution of stream processing, the challenges of building systems that scale to massive data sets, and the recent surge in interest in all things real time.

Building Systems for Massive Scale Data Applications

How is Big Data — the information generated from Google searches, GPS, online shopping and more — changing our lives? Kara Miller asked a panel of experts about the benefits and downsides of the international information database.

How Big Data Changes Lives

2013 SVA Commencement Address. 

Transcript, highlights, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/13/greil-marcus-sva-commencement-address/

Greil Marcus on the artificial divide between "high" and "low" art

Big Data Special: Part 2

Big Data Special: Part 1

Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW is one of the most respected and progressive radio stations in the world, featuring an eclectic mix of independent music, NPR news, talk and arts programming. 
 