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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. The platform is built on S3 and EC2 using a hosted Hadoop framework. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of.

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Opening the Shrinking Global Space for Civil Society

Cloudera

UN Global Pulse Lab in Kampala is doing a retrospective analysis on whether in future local radio content can provide insights into the attitudes and intentions of host communities toward refugees using the example of the Somali refugee influx in Uganda. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.