Infographic: How Can Data Mining & Analytics Enhance Education?

Can you imagine if your educational experience was personalized like your Netflix account? That's the goal behind data mining and analytics in education





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INFOGRAPHIC: How 'Big Data' Is Changing Everything

You'd be surprised to learn how much data our every day activities generate without us even noticing. Here's a look at the impact of big data on social, political, and economic intelligence as well as digital exhaust and privacy implications of big data
 
 
 
 
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INFOGRAPHIC: Big Data & the Future of Your Health

Medical diagnoses, general patient care, and medical practices are often more expensive and inferior than they should be. Big Data could revolutionize healthcare by replacing up to 80% of what doctors do while still maintaining over 91% accuracy.

 

 

 

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AWS Week in Review - October 8th to October 14th, 2012

 

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, October 8	AWS friends at AWS Partner 8KMiles released a new presentation, Email Architecture using Amazon SES.
Tuesday, October 9	AWS added two new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor - S3 Bucket Policy and Idle Elastic Load Balancer. Jeff posted another episode of The AWS Report, Balan Subramanian talked about the Amazon Simple Workflow Service.
Wednesday, October 10	AWS introduced lots of new features for AWS GovCloud (US). AWS announced that AWS is now used by more than 300 government agencies and 1500 educational institutions. AWS published a number of new AWS case studies including Ask.fm, Automobil Lamborghini, Avianca, Politechnico di Milano, Shaw Media, and Swisstopo. AWS added SSL support to Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
Thursday, October 11	Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports promotion of read replicas. Version 2012.09 of the Amazon Linux AMI is now available.
Friday, October 12	This week AWS Marketplace added many new listings including Openbravo, Splunk Storm, iMeet, and ERP Oracle in the Cloud.
Sunday, October 14	AWS now provide console and API access to EC2 Spot Instance Bid Status.

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