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• How eHarmony uses data science for matchmaking

  There have been 11,000 marriages as a result of people meeting on eHarmony Australia since its launch in 2007. So how does the company help to bring couples together?

• Big data: Are we there yet?

  Australian research firm BigInsights has launched a global survey to gauge how much organisations know about big data and the challenges they face when analysing vast amounts of information.

• Technology falling short for HR workers

  HR teams are limited in their ability to do data analytics and are dissatisfied with their core IT vendors, new research has found.

• The perils of analysing unstructured data

  With more organisations looking beyond structured data to get a bigger picture or solve more pieces to the puzzle, harnessing unstructured data is becoming a top focus area in driving business value. However, nothing good is easy.

• Smart cities: using data to shape our urban environments

  Scarce resources, an ever-growing population, natural disasters and many other factors mean we need to be smart about the way we manage the environments we live in.

• Microsoft's Power BI for Office 365 Is Official, Ties Data Sources to Excel

  After nearly eight months in public preview, Power BI for Office 365 is now generally available. Microsoft is aiming to unlock business intelligence for everyone with the new add-on service for Office 365.

• Solving Healthcare's Big Data Analytics Security Conundrum

  HIPAA understandably makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data -- and then assuring them that it's being properly de-identified -- can ease this process.

• BI gives Melbourne Health patient care insights

  Melbourne Health has built a new data warehouse and adopted a business intelligence (BI) platform to get better insights into how well it is serving patients and managing its budget.

• New CSIRO division to focus on data-driven research

  The CSIRO has created a new research department that will focus on computational and information sciences.

• It's not the size of your data, it's how you use it

  Data -- whether it is defined as "big" or "little" -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest companies with the biggest budgets and most sophisticated IT staff. In essence, it's not the size of the data, but how you use it that really matters.

• Four emerging positions CIOs need to fill

  As someone with a mild-to-moderate addiction to Bare Escentuals cosmetics, I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat while reading Kim Nash's cover story ("Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now").

• IBM speeds up data analysis with new algorithm

  IBM researchers have developed a new algorithm that could in minutes analyze terabytes' worth of raw data to more quickly predict weather and electricity usage, the company said Thursday.

• Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet

  Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems.

• MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology

  MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

• Autonomy tool analyzes data from Facebook, social networks

  Autonomy is giving businesses a way to analyze and react to discussion of their products and services on social media sites.