This newsletter discusses big data and its applications. It provides summaries of articles about big data needing large storage solutions, forecasts for the big data market, analyzing hype around big data technologies, using big data in medical science and graphics, and an algorithm that can identify cities based on architectural characteristics. The newsletter is from the UK Business Analytics Team and invites feedback.

1. Analytical Thinking
Analytical Thinking 12 - A
Newsletter from the UK Business August 2012
Analytics Team
Introduction
Introduction
Welcome to the latest edition of Analytical Thinking, a newsletter from the UK Business Analytics
community providing snippets of insight on what people have been saying about our capability in
the press over the last 2 weeks.
This edition focuses on Big Data, still a hot topic at the moment, its application in Science and city's
architecture and different challenges Big Data is currently facing.
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Big Data
Big Data Needs Big Storage: Roundup of Big Data Forecasts and
Where to Keep Gigabytes, Market Estimates,
Terabytes and Petabytes of Data 2012
Forget about gigabytes and The potential of big data to
terabytes. Many corporations, bring insights and intelligence
banks, government agencies and into enterprises is a strong
scientific research institutions motivator, where managers are
now handle petabytes of constantly looking for the
information. Today, big-data competitive edge to win in their chosen markets.
centers still rely on hard drives Given the potential big data has to reorder an
and the capacity of hard drives enterprise and make it more competitive and
isn’t increasing fast enough to keep up with profitable, it’s understandable why there are so
the explosion of digital data worldwide. In this many forecasts and market analyses being done
article, you will discover some new solutions to today. You will find in this article a roundup of the
the big storage problem. latest big data forecasts and market estimates
See article recently published.
See article

2. New Gartner Report Dissects the Big Data: What Do You
Hype Around Big Data Think It Is?
Technologies "Big Data" is the technology
Big data can add another line that is supposedly reshaping
to its ever-expanding the data center. Big Data is
resume: It now has its own also the nucleus of a new and
hype cycle. Stamford, Conn.- growing industry, injecting a
based consultancy Gartner much-needed shot of adrenaline in the business
Inc. recently released the end of computing. It must be important; in March
Hype Cycle for Big Data, 2012 -- its first hype President Obama made it a $200 million line item
cycle report devoted solely to the topic. The in the U.S. Federal Budget. Both businesses and
hype cycle includes a heady definition as well governments may be throwing money at
as a listing of 47 big data technologies and whatever they may think Big Data happens to be.
terms, which include everything from the data And those understandings may depend on who
scientist and cloud-based grid computing, to their suppliers are, who's marketing the concept
predictive analytics and open government to them and how far back they began
data. The following article gives details about investigating the issue. This article gives another
the hype around Big Data. definition of what Big Data is.
See article See article
Healthy Big Data: When Cutting Big Data Magic Trick Show Me A
Edge Graphics Meet Medical Doorway I'll Tell You
Science The City
Big data isn’t just about Soon, it seems, computers
Facebook monitoring every might know our world better
aspect of our lives, or than we do. Google is training
companies recording the computers to spot common
minute details of each images on video streams and
transaction they make. It can match user photos of landmarks and other things
also be used to build some pretty impressive against its image database. Facial-recognition
graphic visualizations, and few are quite as, software could help you identify a complete
well – graphic – as those associated with the stranger in the crowd. And now, a group of
human body. This article will show you how researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and
what the medical profession can do with Big INRIA/Ecole Normale Supérieure have created an
Data. algorithm that can identify cities based on their
See article unique architectural elements and other
distinguising characteristics. In this article, you
will discover a computing system capable of
identifying the unique features that help create a
city’s look and feel, beyond just its famous
landmarks.
See article
Footnote
Figure It Out Blog
Have you visited the Figure it out blog yet?
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Feedback
We hope that you have enjoyed reading this twelfth edition of Analytical Thinking and hope that it

3. has provided you with a good insight into some of the value that is currently being realised through
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then please contact Nigel Lewis or Jon Chadwick. If you have any suggestions on how we can
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Analytical Thinking!
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