At its core, Big Data is about the ability to extract meaning from massive volumes of disparate data.
Disparate data from many different sources was not easy to leverage, which is why Independent Health decided to change the way it managed its information.
Culling through that disparate data isn't exactly efficient.
Though it is an interpretative stretch, that pattern of connection might reduce a person's ability to generalise (since disparate data are less easily integrated) and increase his ability to concentrate (by drawing together similar inputs).
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Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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Melanie Martella, executive editor of Sensors magazine, introduced us to the concept of sensor fusion, a fast-emerging technology that takes data from disparate sources to come up with more accurate, complete and dependable data than was previously possible.
The next piece was to create a learning platform that would bring together their data and disparate learning resources.
Hogan likes HP's focus of trying to knit together disparate parts of corporate data centers, instead of selling big-ticket applications like databases.
It means that a whole world of new consumer applications and services is being enabled by the easier-than-ever ability to aggregate, standardize and present data from disparate sources.
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Companies who proactively address their insight deficit problem and tap into the growing data spread across disparate systems to uncover important insight into their business will have a competitive advantage over those which do not.
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Those numbers were even more disparate 8 years ago, when the Fortune data started: in 2005 the U.S. had 176, China only 16, India a mere 5 of the top 500 multinationals.
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Information when and where you need it is the byproduct of processed data models, running circles around your disparate activity, curated and connected to paint a bigger picture.
Businesses today have many reasons to host data centers, virtualized or otherwise, in disparate locales.
Apps can do this, but we have so many disparate devices, we'd have to manually correlate the data.
By offering fast ananlysis of large amount of data, ScaleOut Software has won clients in such disparate uses as finance, online dating and home shopping.
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But even if the issues of anonymity can be addressed, there is the much bigger issue of what open data actually tells you, and its promise to unlock hitherto unseen links between disparate events.
With three snappy bullet points, all the disparate and apparently random ideas flowing out of Downing Street - localism, big society, data.gov, mutuals, payment-by-results, elected police commissioners, social enterprise - are all suddenly supposed to slot neatly into one big ism.
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