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How Big Data Is Helping Indian Schoolchildren

We often hear how big data and analytics are helping companies make more money. But big data tech is much more than that, and can also have a positive impact on one of society's most vulnerable groups: rural schoolchildr Read more…

Kindergarten: The New Big Data Training Ground

A good education, it is often said, starts at home. And according to a new report, big data training should start in kindergarten. The earlier that educators start laying the foundation for the deep analytical skills Read more…

States Seek to Backstop U.S. Data Privacy Laws

California is poised to become the first state to restrict the use of student data by third-party technology vendors. Two student data privacy bills were sent to California Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month, includi Read more…

IBM Joins with Universities to Push Data Analytics

Big data is making inroads into U.S. university science and engineering curricula as major players like IBM team up with research institutions. For starters, Ohio State University announced this week it would introduc Read more…

Cloudera Brings Hadoop to School

This week Cloudera announced that due to the success of their recent training and certification programs, they would be bringing a bigger, badder "Cloudera University" to developers and system admins. The new training program hopes to churn out more than 4,000 certifications by the end of the year. Read more…

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