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How Technology in Sports Is Becoming a Game-Changer

Sports is one discipline where technology adoption has been growing tremendously in recent years, and 2015 is shaping up to be an important year in building a pronounced acceptance for technology across many sports disciplines—for the teams, the leagues, and even sports fans themselves.

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A Quicker, More Effective Hiring Solution Is on the Way

Given the increasing demand for software talent, hiring is a big task in the IT world. But a startup has an idea for a platform that would help bring objectivity to the entire hiring process, from data collection to skill assessment to prospect evaluation. Would you trust your hiring to the cloud?

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Mukesh Sharma
Businesses Cash In on Open Government Data

Access to data is becoming increasingly obtainable through open data projects that are now available globally, often sponsored by governmental bodies. For example, many real estate websites leverage federal housing data to power their information. How else can we benefit from open government data?

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Mukesh Sharma
The Most Interesting and Innovative Uses for Big Data

As big data grows and we begin to understand how to effectively represent and repurpose complex information through advanced analytics, companies both big and small will find new and exciting uses for this bottomless ocean of data. Read on to learn of some of the best big data products.

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Josiah Renaudin
Thanks to Smarter Analytics, Big Data Will Be the Talk of 2015

Just because big data—which has become one of the most talked about buzzwords in the industry—hasn’t reached its full potential yet doesn’t mean it won’t. Better analytics and a greater understanding of the science behind big data will go far to make big data a much more prominent tool in 2015.

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Josiah Renaudin
Wearables and Big Data: A Match Made in Heaven

Big data is only getting bigger. This catch-all phrase for the continued growth and availability of information that was spurred from the escalation of PCs, smartphones, and tablets has only become more prevalent. Its next big step could very well lie in an emerging market: wearables.

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Josiah Renaudin
Can Big Data Make HR Decisions More Objective?

It is apparent that internal operations at Google have a tremendous bias towards data, and the human resources function is no different in this regard. The emergence of big data in HR seems to be a trend that has the potential to revolutionize how people decisions are executed in organizations.

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Anuj Magazine
Making Beautiful Music from Big Data

Pamela Rentz highlights the work of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a radio telescope composed of sixty-six high-precision antennas located in northern Chile, and how the big data is being put to use by translating seventy different radio images onto musical discs.

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Pamela Rentz