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Benevolence of Assistive AI in Decreasing Natural Disaster Damage

Smart Data Collective

A few years ago, we talked about the benefits of using AI and big data in disaster relief. In seven of the last 10 years, there have been 10 or more weather-related disasters with costs exceeding $1 billion each. These problems put the importance of big data and AI to the test, as we strive to fight the problems they cause.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly on Data

.” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” The elephant was unstoppable. Until it wasn’t.

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

BizAcuity

Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. Cloud washing is storing data on the cloud for use over the internet. While that allows easy access to users, and saves costs, the cloud is much more and beyond that.