Data

Advertisers are more concerned Facebook will cut off access to data than they are about privacy, it seems. Far from boycotting the social network over highly publicized data lapses... More

IBM is trying to position itself as a viable blockchain solution for brands and, now, publishers. For about a month, consumer goods company Unilever has been using IBM’s blockcha... More

Gracenote is ready to bring its “infotainment” services to life, working with all of the nation’s automakers in ensuring that radio doesn’t lose its front-and-center place ... More

NAGRA and the Entertainment Technology Center, a think tank and research center within the USC School of Cinematic Arts, have partnered to map Fandom Genomics. This data science st... More

With more than 100 million subscribers around the world who generate an extraordinary amount of data to analyze, Netflix has access to many insights about its viewers that help dri... More

The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR privacy legislation that comes into force on May 25 has left companies unclear about how to offer the personalised products that cust... More

The Facebook consumer privacy scandal has focused attention on the importance of trust. Mark Zuckerberg’s recent appearance before congressional investigators probing the Faceboo... More

By now, any data professional worth his or her salt should know about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This EU law, set to be enforced in May 2018, has sent shockwave... More

The day after David Bowie died in January 2016, Pandora users generated 200,000 Bowie-themed stations. The solar eclipse last August drove a 3,000 percent leap in Spotify plays for... More

Predictive analytics uses historic data and complex algorithms to make predictions of trends, actions and outcomes, and it remains largely the purview of highly trained data scient... More

Many chief executives and business leaders around the world recount a new mantra: “data is the new oil”. It’s true that both generate wealth, power the cogs of economies and ... More

Big Data has been on the radar for a significantly longer time than its intense implementation. Although there is no agreed-on definition, the term is often characterised by three ... More

Poor data quality is enemy number one to the widespread, profitable use of machine learning. While the caustic observation, “garbage-in, garbage-out” has plagued analytics and ... More

Data by themselves are inert—dumb, raw material. Making things smart will mean designing with data in a way that reflects and responds to the functional, social, and emotional be... More

Facebook’s 2.1 billion monthly active users likely had some notion the information they share on the network is mined for ad targeting. However, news of Cambridge Analytica acces... More

What happens when data warehouses, the large data repositories companies have built and managed for years, are combined with autonomous capabilities of the future? Oracle’s new A... More

IoT will generate a staggering 400 zettabytes (or 400 trillion gigabytes) of data a year by 2018, according to the 2016 Cisco Visual Networking Index. This is being driven by every... More

You can invest in data technologies and collect all the data you can possibly imagine, but it’s worthless if it’s not analyzed or communicated to decision-makers so that action... More

Every day, a wealth of information is being gathered about the world around us. Weather conditions, satellite imagery, geological layers and more are being fed into private databas... More

European television giants RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1, together with German internet provider United Internet, on Thursday launched an independent foundation designed to protect ... More