Browsing: Big Data

Big data offers educators unprecedented opportunities to reach and instruct students in new ways. Its also allows for a deeper understanding of students' educational experiences, reduces dropout rates, and helps schools adjust funding and enrollment strategies.

The enterprise data space is growing twice as fast as the consumer data space, in part because organizations are increasingly using the cloud for storage and consumption. Much of this raw data is often located in disparate silos at the point of collection, limiting its use in the enterprise.

On the Internet, everyone leaks certain fragments of information more or less, either actively or passively. When this information is mined by big data, there is a risk of privacy leakage and raises information security issues.

This year's Gartner release on the key data and analytics trends for data and analytics leaders to leverage in the enterprise in 2022 breaks down into three main themes: energizing and diversifying the enterprise, empowering people and decision making, and institutionalizing trust.