This paper reviews the evolution of law enforcement use of Big Data in the United States and captures some key lessons learned. Law enforcement methodology has evolved tremendously in the past few decades to embrace quantitative analysis and statistics with the rise of data-driven policing. Now, law enforcement strategy is poised to take another leap...

Big Data, the data too large and complex for most current information infrastructure to store and analyze, has changed every sector in government and industry. Today’s sensors and devices produce an overwhelming amount of information that is often unstructured, and solutions developed to handle Big Data now allowing us to track more information and run...

This paper provides a framework meant to help in the evaluation of Big Data analytical tools. We review ten factors we believe should be paramount in your evaluations of Big Data analytical software packages. We present these factors in a way you should find easily tailorable to your organizational needs.The need for sensemaking across large...