According to the BBC, health authorities in Bangladesh have found that they can use mobile phone data to stop the spread of malaria. 

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people globally - most of them children.

Menpaw Mro lifted his young daughter on to his shoulders and began the long journey to the nearest hospital, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, first on foot, then by boat and finally in a small motorised rickshaw

The oil and gas industry has fully embraced using big data in all aspects of its business, reports Rig Zone.

Conventional logic would dictate that retailers and service firms might be among the most nervous adopters of the concept of storing their data off-site on partners’ third-party infrastructure, given the number of high profile breaches we have seen over the years.

According to ZD Net, a pharma company is using big data to map cells in the body. 

Whenever machine learning is applied to a given field of industry, defining the objective is one of the most salient questions. Just what are you trying to find out?