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Open (government) data as it is understood nowadays can still be considered a new concept. It started to gain traction worldwide since the Obama memo in early 2009 and the launch of data.gov a few months later. Following successful leading examples of the US and UK governments we have seen open data flourishing all over the world over the last three years. About three hundred open data catalogues have been identified so far.

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Default to open data: an Executive Order

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Last week, The White House published an Executive Order by which the default method for government data collection and dissemination must now be:

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Canonical Promotes Ceph Big Data Storage System… For Red Hat?

Canonical, on its official blog, is promoting the latest release of the Ceph distributed storage system, titled Cuttlefish. Why is that noteworthy? Because the post doesn’t mention Canonical’s Linux distribution (Ubuntu) at all, and instead focuses in large part on what Ceph is doing for Red Hat. Is Ceph that important to the open-source and Big Data ecosystems that it can bring competitors so selflessly together like this?
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Open data: Meaningful, visual information

One of the keys to a successful open data portal is to make it useful for the end user. Citizens and developers should be able to understand data sets without needing a PhD. I've been following the progress of Raleigh, North Carolina's open data initiative, which launched a beta of their data.raleighnc.gov portal in March 2013.
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Open data: Meaningful, visual information

Heat map of Raleigh open permit data

One of the keys to a successful open data portal is to make it useful for the end user. Citizens and developers should be able to understand data sets without needing a PhD. I’ve been following the progress of Raleigh, North Carolina’s open data initiative, which launched a beta of their data.raleighnc.gov portal in March 2013.

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Two open data centers at Facebook

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Today, the many in the world focus on making things as environmentally-friendly as possible to reduce the negative impact daily life has on the environment to protect it for future generations. This includes major corporations, such as Facebook.

Facebook is at the forefront of creating greener ways to operate their servers that contain everything that makes the website run for its millions of users. With their state-of-the-art open source data centers, they are helping companies around the world match their stride.

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ITTIA DB SQL Offers M2M Data Management for the Internet of Things

ITTIA DB SQL’s Machine to Machine connectivity allows developers of smart devices to build applications that collect and transfer device data across a diverse ecosystem, ensuring permanent data availability.
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Tracking real-time health with Twitter data serves as an early warning system

Twitter data for healthcare

As the open source ethic has changed the way that we share and develop resources, crowdsourcing is redefining how we can create new resources based upon that willingness to share. One example of crowdsourcing at work for the betterment of us all is public health researchers turning to Twitter to collect real-time data about public health.

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EFF ranks Apple worse than Facebook when it comes to protecting your data

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When it comes to privacy and data protection, Facebook is hardly thought of as a leader among big technology companies. It should be somewhat troubling, then, that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has ranked Apple worse than companies like Facebook, Amazon and Comcast when it comes to protecting your data from the government.

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MySQL Workbench: Data Modeling & Development (Oracle Press) Reviews

MySQL Workbench: Data Modeling & Development (Oracle Press)

MySQL Workbench: Data Modeling & Development (Oracle Press)

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Samsung Galaxy S3 – Battery + Wall Travel External Dock Battery Charger + Universal USB Car Charger + USB Data Sync Cable Reviews

Samsung Galaxy S3 – Battery + Wall Travel External Dock Battery Charger + Universal USB Car Charger + USB Data Sync Cable

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Big data in modern biology

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There is now no question that genomics, the study of the genomes of organisms and a field that includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms, has joined the big data club. The development of prolific new DNA sequencing technologies is forcing biologists to embrace the dizzying terms of terabytes, petabytes and, looming on the horizon, exabytes.

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