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Big Data Project Management: What’s In & What’s Out?

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Here’s something to think about when you're planning a big data project: are you planning a project or a program ? A program is something ongoing and relatively permanent. Relatively self-contained big data projects may be tied to an ongoing process or program that is already developing or delivering a product or service.

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NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence

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We have been watching several initiatives under NIH and like many others have already witnessed very promising research. For more on this big data initiative, see the below from a 22 July press release : NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for. The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. Research VP, Gartner.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

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I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects.

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Advancing Genomics Through Big Data Studies: An Interview with Dr. Mark Guyer of NIH

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By Bob Gourley Genomics is a critically important discipline in contemporary biomedical research that takes a comprehensive approach to determining and understanding the structure and function of DNA to advance our understanding of life and our ability to make lives better for all. There is so much going on in this field.

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Learn Big Data Design Patterns in 11 Dec 2014 Webinar

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On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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Big Data – Construct or Reality?

Eric D. Brown

Taking a page from my years in quantitative research, I submit this definition ( based on this definition ): A construct is a mental abstraction used to express an idea, object or any other ‘item’ (could be people, organizations, etc.). With that out of the way…back to the question at hand: Is big data a construct or reality?

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