Big Data

New LA City Controller Ron Galperin is using some tools at his disposal to gather information that’s germane to his job. Galperin’s using a huge database to make comparisons of city spending, including salaries at departments across LA. And that’s shedding some light on how tax dollars are being spent here in the nation’s second largest city. Kevin Roderick from LA Observed joins KCRW's Steve Chiotakis to discuss the use of data to bring accountability and transparency to City Hall.

LA Observed: Can Big Data improve City Hall?

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

We take you through Don Peck's article in the Atlantic, "They're Watching You at Work", available here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/theyre-watching-you-at-work/354681/

FoW Podcast 01: Big Data

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

Paris: city of love, art and, of course, analytics. Well, at least for the duration of this episode of The Real Big Data’s podcast, the Voice of Big Data. Because this edition of the podcast is all about defining big data analytics and how it’s overturning the business world, flying in the face of traditional IT infrastructure strategies. 

Our guests for this episode are both from Squid Solutions: CEO Adrien Schmidt and SVP of Business Development John Broadhurst. 

We'll be exploring the need for agile, user-friendly analytics applications over cumbersome, traditional IT infrastructures in relation to the global IT economy and a whole lot more.

Visit us at http://www.therealbigdata.com/ for more.

The Real Big Data Podcast: Voice of Big Data - Big Data Analytics

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.

Big Data

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