Tag: Big data

How Autodesk is evolving to guide modern construction

Designing a building is becoming less about how much bricks and mortar you need.

African hospitals are using AI and big data to diagnose cancer

SOPHiA is an artificial intelligence that can detect diseases such as breast cancer using big data from 260 hospitals around the world.

Wildfires versus big data: how South Africa’s 49-year-old fire warning system has stood the test of time

Everyone wants to improve our Fire Danger Index, but the old way is proving strangely resillient.

Cape Town gears up to host first UN data conference this weekend

Number crunchers to descend on Mother City for international stats jamboree.

The election will be digitised: How SABC is going online first on polling day

How the SABC is pulling together data for news coverage of election night.

The data is in, there are 6, not 7 kinds of stories you can tell

And you’ve probably encountered them all…

Study shows how data can be used to fight Ebola, Lassa and more

UK scientists use data analysis to help predict how zoonotic diseases such as Ebola will spread, and how humans can combat it.

Feast your eyes on 300TB of CERN’s raw Large Hadron Collider data – for free

In good news for students, you might not need laboratory-strength computers to interpret CERN’s data.

SKAHack is a hackathon focused on the Square Kilometre Array

Dig into the data that will come from one of the biggest scientific endeavours in Africa at the SKAHack that’s being held in March.

Move over big data, algorithms are going to drive the world

“Algorithms will define the way the world works very soon. It is in everything, and it is encoded in the software.”

Three SA universities team up to address the SKA’s big data challenges

The Square Kilometre Array is expected to generate a lot of data when it goes live, and these three varsities will handle the bulk of it.

Find out why ICFJ is investing R60m into data journalism in Africa

Coders! Writers! Data scientists! You won’t want to miss this…

Join Code4SA in digging into CT’s gov data portal for new innovations

Data Quest 1 takes place this Saturday at CodeBridge.

What does a star sound like? This blind astronomer listens to the choir of the cosmos

Dr Wanda Diaz Merced turned starlight into sound so she could carry on her research after losing her sight.

Michael J Fox Foundation turns to big data for Parkinson’s treatment

Intel and Michael J Fox Foundation team up to bring the power of big data to Parkinson’s, using a humble Pebble smartwatch.

Single use SA credit card app makes payments private, brings bank services to the poor

Net1’s disposable credit cards could be the mobile money you’ve been waiting for.