Bernard Marr | Future . Business . Success

Every day, nearly 2.5 billion people log in to one of the Facebook family of services, which include Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And as users scroll, message, like, and click, Facebook continues to scoop up data, which they package up for advertisers. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence allows Facebook to make sense of all the messy data it collects about our likes, dislikes...

How Amazon uses Big Data in practice
Amazon has thrived by adopting an “everything under one roof” model. However, when faced with such a huge range of options, customers can often feel overwhelmed. They effectively become data-rich, with tons of options, but insight-poor, with little idea...

Learning to live with, let alone prosper from, the widespread changes being brought about by technology, sometimes requires changes in behaviour on our part.
Smart homes, for example, don’t simply mean we don’t have to remember to switch the lights on and off or set our IoTthermostats. We have to learn how to set up automation programs and sometimes make changes to our habits to accommodate sensors and new...

How hospitals in Paris are using Big Data in practice
At four of the hospitals which make up the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), data from internal and external sources – including 10 years’ worth of hospital admissions records– has been crunched to come up with day- and hour-level predictions...