Computing's 'Big Bang' moment came during World War 2, in the shape of the world's first programmable digital computer, Colossus.Built at the UK's Bletchley Park codebreaking centre to help break ...

Big data. If nothing else, this wiring diagram of the brain will provide a lot of data. What you might call big data. You need to look at every cubic millimeter of brain to see every synapse, ...

Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting.

A new book by designer Manuel Lima, however, shows that data viz's roots go much deeper--some 900 years, at the very least. And calling them "roots" is very much appropriate.

Big Data refers to ... For example, the diagram of Manhattan clearly illustrates the dominant rectangular grid, compressing a large quantity of urban data into simple, legible information.

Key findings of the 2020 New Vantage Partners Big Data and AI Executive Survey are: Data and AI investment are up, but the pace of investment is slowing The percentage of firms investing greater ...

Want to start the New Year with a little bit of perspective? Take a look at this beautiful interactive tree of life diagram created by Evogeneao, which enables you to see how all organisms on ...