The Blockchain Meets Big Data and Realtime Analysis
Analysis by Steven McKie. Big Data. It's a popular buzzword that you've seen all over the Net the past few years. It's a very serious billion-dollar industry now - with frontrunners from all different niche avenues of data collection and analytics. With the number of unique data sources available to these data-focused companies, the possibilities for....
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