GAP-ANALYTICS (GEOLOCATION AND PLACES-ANALYTICS)

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

Spotlytics: How to Use Cloud Market Places for Analytics?

In contrast to fixed-priced cloud computing services, Amazon’s Spot market uses a demand-driven pricing model for renting out virtual machine instances. This allows for remarkable savings when used intelligently. However, a peculiarity of Amazon’s Spot market is, that machines can suddenly be taken away from the user if the price on the market increases. This can be considered as a distinct for...

System of Systems and Big Data analytics - Bridging the gap

Article history: Available online 5 December 2013 Large data has been accumulating in all aspects of our lives for quite some time. Advances in sensor technology, the Internet, wireless communication, and inexpensive memory have all contributed to an explosion of ‘‘Big Data’’. System of Systems (SoS) integrate independently operating, non-homogeneous systems to achieve a higher goal than the su...

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....

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