More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

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	More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware? Using VMware NIC Teaming? Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised) Get this essential FREE white paper now -- 11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff Click to continue In this Issue SAP says HANA will power all cloud applications Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort What open-source Hadoop coming to Windows means to IT SAP hopes its software scores with sports teams Opinion: Shaping information potential in healthcare Feds seek ways to make health data more user-friendly to tech developers When cars talk, this is what they'll tell each other Japan's DoCoMo to use mobile data to monitor traffic jams Obama administration pushes open data in executive order WHITE PAPER: Globanet Beyond Data Migration Best Practices This guide is designed to help understand the best practices associated with email and other migration types – providing best practice guidance from some of the industry's leading migration experts. Read Now! SAP says HANA will power all cloud applications SAP's HANA Cloud Platform -- consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services -- will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire conference. Read More Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site. Read More What open-source Hadoop coming to Windows means to IT Hadoop is nearly synonymous with the analysis of big data. The Hortonworks Data Platform on Windows is significant as it means that companies lacking Linux expertise will finally be able to benefit from the big data analysis platform, which has been out of the reach of Windows shops. Read More SAP hopes its software scores with sports teams SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologies can help them make fans happier, find better players and improve their operations. Read More WHITE PAPER: 10gen A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison of MongoDB & Oracle In this white paper, we compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of MongoDB and Oracle. It can be faster and cheaper to develop and deploy applications on MongoDB than on Oracle Database, yielding both bottom-line benefits,lower developer and administrative costs. Learn More Opinion: Shaping information potential in healthcare Electronic health records are generating a wealth of information and simply having data in an EHR does not solve the data fragmentation problem. Merging the data is just the first step, data quality is the next. Read More Feds seek ways to make health data more user-friendly to tech developers The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region. Read More When cars talk, this is what they'll tell each other Researchers at Intel and National Taiwan University are developing technology that allows cars to exchange data, a move that could make roads safer and give drivers a street-wise perspective on those around them. Read More Japan's DoCoMo to use mobile data to monitor traffic jams NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, will use location data from its 61.5 million subscriber devices to build a platform that monitors traffic conditions across the country. Read More Obama administration pushes open data in executive order U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration. Read More
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