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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

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It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Police analytics comb over crime data looking for hot zones; security agencies comb over travel and credit card records looking for possible terrorists. Big Data in Disaster Relief.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. Mobile Computing.

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