COVID-19: How to fight disease outbreaks with data
In today’s age of information, big data allows us to fight an infectious disease like COVID-19 more effectively. This article explores the challenges, especially in the area of collating and analyzing global data and collaboration between experts. Throughout history, the movement
How Big Data Can Help Achieve Global Gender Equality
If you were intrigued by the headline of this article, then either you are working in the Big Data & analytics space or you are working as a gender expert driving social programs & policies in the public sector space.
Human Rights in the Digital Age: Data Literacy in Tackling the Big Data Divide
Most of us no longer view the world as something that purely exists in material form. Rather we view it as an ongoing process of online-offline interactions. We are continuously navigating our lives in between offline and online realities. The
Big Data Working Towards Health and Human Development
We live in the era of mass information whereby phrases such as big data and data science ring a bell to most laypersons. However, most of us tend to set those concepts aside into a complex field of expertise that
How Business Analytics is Disrupting the Sports Industry
There are two types of analytics within the sports industry. The first one – sports analytics – was created in the 1970’s by Bill James who was first to use statistics in baseball. Michael Lewis then popularized it thanks to