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 ...

As the big data industry continues to steamroll ahead, one conundrum persists – exactly how do you define it? A new report from the MIT Technology Review addresses this issue by examining definitions ...

The massive amounts of data collected over time that are difficult to analyze and handle using common database management tools. The data are analyzed for marketing trends in business as well as in ...

The big data steam roller continues to move forward, but if you take a brief step back, how would you define “big data?” UC Berkeley’s new Master of Information and Data Science program decided to ...

"It’s not the amount of data that’s important; It’s what organizations do with the data that matters." -Steve Mitgang, CEO, SmartDrive Systems. But here’s a question rarely asked in such discussions: ...

Aside from how we define big data as a technological phenomenon, the wide variety of potential uses for big data analytics raises crucial questions about whether our legal, ethical, and social norms ...