Speaking of Big Data…
Wikibon, a professional community solving technology and business problems through an open-source sharing of knowledge, has published an interesting infographic about how Big Data solutions are being integrated into enterprises.
“There’s no question we have a long way to go before Big Data is ubiquitous in the enterprise,” the creators write. “But, as our infographic makes clear, there are plenty of Big Data success stories to talk about in the here and now.”
The organization’s vendor revenue and market forecast for Big Data-related hardware, software and services offers a rosy view of the future. They estimate that the total Big Data market reached $11.4 billion in 2012, and project that it will exceed $47 billion by 2017. That would represent a 31 percent compound annual growth rate for 2012-2017.
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June 6th, 2013
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Smartphone Barometric Pressure App Could Improve Weather Forecasts
University of Washington atmospheric scientists are paddling in to the citizen science crowdsourcing wave.
They’ve released a free Android app called pressureNET for tablets and smartphones to collect and map barometric pressure data around the world. They hope to improve short-term, local weather forecasting with the flood of new readings.
PressureNET, now installed on more than 10,000 devices, makes use of pressure sensors built into a growing number of smartphones and tablets. The newest version of the app provides a lives stream of data to scientists and forecasters.
“With this approach we could potentially have tens or hundreds of thousands of additional surface pressure observations, which could significantly improve short-term weather forecasts,” says Cliff Mass, a UW atmospheric sciences professor.
February 8th, 2013
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