The buzz and hype around data…small data, big data, machine data, social data, mobile data….is relentless.  As a result there are a lot of new initiatives and companies.  I have been asked repeatedly by a lot of entrepreneurs and strategy teams about...

Health expenditures in the United States neared $3.0 trillion in 2013 which is over ten times the $256 billion spent in 1980.  Almost 15% of U.S GDP is estimated to be spent on healthcare.

Various organization define Big Data differently. Some use “petabytes of data” as a benchmark to isolate big data from other normalized and structured data sets that exist within an organization. However, this measure quickly boxes big data...