Tag: bigdata

Inside eBay’s 90PB data warehouse 
By Liz Tay | May 10, 2013 | Comment Now 
Engineers build analytics-as-a-service.
 
Sportsbet uses compliance to make big data business case 
 
Govt needs convincing on big data: Carr 
By Charis Palmer | Apr 22, 2013 | Comment Now 
Former minister flags deep suspicion.
 
NICTA inks third geothermal contract 
By Liz Tay | Apr 10, 2013 | Comment Now 
Adds Otway Basin data to advanced analytics project.
 
Choosing democracy over Big Brother  
By Dirk Helbing | Apr 2, 2013 | Comment Now 
Opinion: Surveillance and manipulation is not a sustainable situation.
 
Lifting the lid on personalised pricing 
By Liz Tay | Apr 2, 2013 | Comment Now 
Will big data price Aussies out of financial services?
 
IAG plots big data pilot 
By Liz Tay | Mar 15, 2013 | Comment Now 
Sets sights on custom-priced insurance.
 
Love in the time of big data 
By Joshua Gliddon | Dec 7, 2012 | Comment Now 
How two core algorithms make eHarmony matches.
 
Amadeus builds custom big data platform 
By Liz Tay | Nov 26, 2012 | Comment Now 
Five years' work to display fewer, more relevant flights.
 
UBank unveils spending comparison tool 
By Liz Tay | Nov 9, 2012 | Comment Now 
Powered by real-world transactional data.
 
Coles cautious on loyalty card data 
By Liz Tay | Nov 1, 2012 | Comment Now 
Keeps individual targeting off the cards.
 
CSIRO mines big data trends 
By Joshua Gliddon | Oct 26, 2012 | Comment Now 
Human Services among the early adopters of new tool.
 
Deakin to train big data masters 
By Joshua Gliddon | Oct 12, 2012 | Comment Now 
Launches new course in partnership with IBM.
 
Aussie CIOs mull value of machine data 
By Liz Tay | Oct 11, 2012 | Comment Now 
Set sights on fraud, outages and customer churn.
 
VMware promotes big data apps on VMs 
By Brett Winterford | Sep 4, 2012 | Comment Now 
New frontier on virtual machines.
 
Banks mull customers' social value 
By Liam Tung | Jul 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
Systems, culture could impede Australian progress.
 
Treasury completes two-year data analytics project 
By Liz Tay | May 25, 2012 | Comment Now 
Deploys Odysseus to data modelling teams.
 
Zurich seeks social platform for staff, partners 
By Liz Tay | May 18, 2012 | Comment Now 
Encourages the use of Skype, FaceTime in the interim.
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