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The Danger of Big Data and the Progressive Plot for Education
With the federal government's increasing involvement in education, advocates of this national education system claim gathering immense amounts of data is necessary for the system to properly function. This data is more than simple aggregate of test …
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SiSense Raises M More To Bring Big Data Analytics To Businesspeople
SiSense, a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $ 30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth — the VC's arm …
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Project helps farmers harness benefits of 'big data'
The “Big Data Strategy and Implementation Plan,” backed by Iowa AgState and developed by The Hale Group of Danvers, Mass., will begin immediately by obtaining all relevant facts about how agricultural data is collected, shared, analyzed and used.
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