Beyond Open Big Data: Addressing Unreliable Research

Beyond Open Big Data: Addressing Unreliable Research

The National Institute of Health invests US $30.9 billion annually in medical research. However, the subsequent impact of this research output on society and the economy is amplified dramatically as a result of the actual medical treatments, biomedical innovations, and various commercial enterprises that emanate from and depend on these findings. It is therefore a great concern to discover that...

Addressing Big Data with Hadoop

Nowadays, a large volume of data from various resources such as social media networks, sensory devices and other information serving devices are produced. This large collection of unstructured, semi structured data is called big data. The conventional databases and data ware houses can’t process this data. So we need new data processing tools. Hadoop addresses this need. Hadoop is an open sourc...

Addressing Big Data Security Challenges

Reframing Open Big Data

Recent developments in the techniques and technologies of collecting, sharing and analysing data are challenging the field of information systems (IS) research let alone the boundaries of organizations and the established practices of decision-making. Coined ‘open data’ and ‘big data’, these developments introduce an unprecedented level of societal and organizational engagement with the potenti...

Open Data and Beyond

In recent years, there has been an increasing trend of releasing public sector information as open data. Governments worldwide see the potential benefits of opening up their data. The potential benefits are more transparency, increased governmental efficiency and effectiveness, and external benefits, including societal and economic benefits. The private sector also recognizes potential benefits...