The R statistical programming language is gaining popularity as developers scramble to meet the Big Data skills shortage, with one new report proclaiming it's "on its way to the top 10." "Thanks to ...

Another popular data science language is R, which has long been a favorite of mathematicians, statisticians, and hard sciences. The SAS environment from the company of the same name continues to be ...

Plenty of people have foreseen the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis, but when computers become good enough to understand literature, art and human history, will it ...

Oracle president Mark Hurd (Getty Images North America via @daylife) If you think we’ve got Big Data problems now—with “only” about 9 billion devices connected to the Internet—what’s ...

Microsoft today announced it will acquire Revolution Analytics, a company that provides products and services around the R programming language, a mainstay of Big Data analytics development. R has ...

To illustrate the kinds of relationship that a hypergraph can tease out of a big data set — and an ordinary graph can’t — Purvine points to a simple example close to home, the world of scientific ...

The exponential growth in data continues to be the driving force behind many of todays transformative technologies. Here I look at how big data is enabling one of the biggest tech trends at ...

Big-data researchers have the option to stop doing their research once they have the right result. In options language: The researcher gets the “upside” and truth gets the “downside.” ...

Enter CliniWorks, which makes a system that peruses all data fields, and assigns data to where it belongs using natural language processing. "It's a lot deeper than just identifying keywords.