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How the Dutch use big data to keep their country afloat

With over 27% of the country below sea level, the Netherlands boasts one of the world’s – if not the…

Feb 20, 2022 Yves Mulkers 30M views 3 min read

Witness the Transformation from Industrial, to Smart City

In recent years, falling global oil prices have created challenging opportunity for Saudi Arabia to move towards renewable energy and…

Feb 23, 2019 Yves Mulkers 70M views 3 min read

Building smart cities with the smart citizen approach

The main theme of many Smart Cities conferences nowadays is people. The reason is that the millions of people who…

May 13, 2017 Yves Mulkers 102M views 3 min read

Identifying Where and How to Start the Big Data Journey

The recent deluge of rains in Northern California have flooded streets, brought down trees and plugged storm sewers.  As I…

Apr 24, 2017 Yves Mulkers 68M views 3 min read

A History of DataViz

After examining the history of data visualization greats I decided to collect my learnings in the style of history’s data…

Jan 18, 2017 Yves Mulkers 134M views 2 min read

Open Data Projects Are Fueling the Fight Against Police Misconduct

 a 16-year-old foster child from Far Rockaway, New York, had no criminal history when he was arrested in September, accused…

Nov 2, 2016 Yves Mulkers 161M views 4 min read

Why the Time-Tested Science of Data Visualization Is So Powerful

For almost as long as we have been writing, we’ve been putting meaning into maps, charts, and graphs. Some 1,300…

Oct 29, 2016 Yves Mulkers 35M views 3 min read

Using Big Data to Predict Terrorist Acts Amid Privacy Concerns

Before Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York and New Jersey, he bought bomb-making materials on eBay, linked to…

Oct 19, 2016 Yves Mulkers 100M views 4 min read

The Rationale for Securing Big Data

This blog post is the first in a series based on the ebook The Six Elements of Securing Big Databy…

Sep 19, 2016 Yves Mulkers 157M views 3 min read

The 7 Most Unusual Applications of Big Data You’ve Ever Seen!

It’s all well and good to talk about customer experience and managing inventory flow, but what has big data done…

Sep 14, 2016 Yves Mulkers 40M views 2 min read