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Big data analytics

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Unicef uses data science to track refugees

  United Nations agency for humanitarian aid for children and mothers in developing countries is turning to data science, marshalling expertise from companies and other corporates

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

  Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Royal Dutch Touring Club stimulates innovation and renewal of ICT

  Dutch motoring club has shaped its business in a way that enables the business and IT department to innovate together

• March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17

  Executive interview: Gideon Mann, head of data science, Bloomberg

  We find out how Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann balances the certainty of analytics with the alchemy of machine learning

• March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17

  Singapore’s maritime sector facing talent shortages in big data

  The skills gap in Singapore is putting big data analytics out of reach for port and logistics companies

• March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17

  Domino’s Australia says hello to chatbots

  The pizza chain has launched a chatbot that takes orders via its Australian website and mobile app

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists

  Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

• March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17

  Dubai Health Authority electronic medical records to launch this year

  Dubai citizens and health organisations will soon benefit from electronic medical records

• March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Jim Downing, Metail

  Jim Downing, CTO at digital fashion plugin Metail, believes selling fashion online is still difficult for retailers despite shifts towards omni-channel

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Singapore university taps Verizon’s cyber security knowhow

  Nanyang Technological University will use the Veris Community Database in a research project to enable more accurate cyber risk assessment

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: Global mobile operators to use big data for social good

  The GSMA has launched the Big Data For Social Good initiative, drawing together the big data capabilities of mobile network operators to address humanitarian crises around the world

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Sainsbury’s CDO Andy Day maps path to join customer and product data

  Sainsbury’s CDO Andy Day, who claimed the number one spot on DataIQ’s 2017 100 top data leaders list, is mapping out a data strategy to join customer and product data, in a “farm to fork” pathway

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  ASEAN’s first nationwide IoT network debuts in Singapore

  Sigfox-based IoT network now covers 95% of Singapore, meaning enterprises can connect devices to the network nationwide

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  Progress on business IoT adoption slower than expected

  The Economist Intelligence Unit last looked at business IoT adoption in 2013. Its latest business adoption index shows slow progress

• February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17

  Public trust key to ‘data-driven government’, says John Manzoni

  The civil service chief says the public needs to be confident in data sharing safeguards and admits Care.data scandal was a step back in gaining trust