Dubai airport is using big data to make airline travel more pleasant, reports ZD Net.

Most people would agree that air travel is, at best, a drag, featuring lengthy check-in queues, laborious security processes and slow boarding systems. 

Big data can be used to help people recover from/avoid natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region, reports Reuters. 

Technological innovations - from unique digital identities for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media - can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday

According to Forbes, businesses need to focus less on the size of the data, and more on the quality of the data. 

“Big Data.” Over 800 million results when you type the term into Google. It’s been an important marketing topic for some time. And it’s a significant challenge for CMOs