Big data was so yesterday; it's all about algorithms today, according to Peter Sondergaard, Gartner Research senior vice president. Speaking at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2015 on Tuesday morning, ...

Bitmap indexing has emerged as a vital tool in the efficient management and interrogation of scientific data. By representing data elements as bits, these indexes facilitate rapid, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. “Algorithms aren’t subjective,” said Jure Lescovic, a computer science profession from ...

Algorithms are already all around us. Consider how Google’s proprietary algorithm in the driverless car functions as the connective tissue that combines the software, data, sensors and physical asset ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. When it comes to big data and complex algorithms, state and local governments have barely touched the tip ...

The age of Big Data has generated new tools and ideas on an enormous scale, with applications spreading from marketing to Wall Street, human resources, college admissions, and insurance. At the same ...

In today’s world of big data, learning from the vast amount of information collected every day is critical for the firms that rely on it for manufacturing, marketing, decision-making and more. Often, ...

Big data has been a business buzzword for years now, with entrepreneurs and the media endlessly chewing over the promise and perils of collecting massive quantities of data. Few are better placed to ...