Consider, for a moment, some of the most pernicious challenges facing humanity today: the increasing prevalence of natural disasters; the systemic overfishing of the world’s oceans; the clear-cutting ...

Despite the global momentum behind big data-driven humanitarian logistics, the study warns that emerging economies face ...

As an investor in data-driven companies, I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandfather—a baker, a small business owner, and, I now realize, a pioneering data scientist. Without much more than pencil, ...

Governments at all levels are using big data analytics to get their arms around the information acquired, created and maintained by public agencies and jurisdictions. The beauty of big data analytics ...

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 ...

The hype around big data is deafening, and for valid reason. When it’s used to augment customer information, big data acts as a force multiplier, arming organizations with deep customer intelligence.