Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...

Christena Garduno is the CEO of Media Culture, a brand response agency specializing in media planning and buying for nearly 30 years. Big data is transforming the relationship between companies and ...

Synchronous analytics and asynchronous analytics are distinguished by the way they process data. But they both have big data storage appetites and specialized needs. The term big data analytics has ...

Organizations that are expanding their traditional infrastructure in the face of big data challenges should consider assembling a big data stack architecture using purpose-built software products and ...

As statistics continues to play an ever more important role in society, equal access to data resources in developing countries is becoming more essential. Yet the ability to collect good data, the ...

Just when you thought you had mastered all the data-riffic buzzwords out there, another rears its trendy head. Never mind big data, we're talking about "datafication," the notion that organizations ...

The ability to collect and learn from large amounts of data has been a major driver of innovation over recent decades. Everything from health care – think patient analytics, wearable devices and the ...