Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Machines vs. Models, Noise vs. Signal

Posted on May 30, 2012 by GilPress

An excerpt from Nassim Taleb’s forthcoming book, Antifragile, was posted yesterday on the Farnam Street blog. In “Noise and Signal,” Taleb says that “In business and economic decision-making, data causes severe side effects —data is now plentiful thanks to connectivity; … Continue reading →

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Facebook’s IPO and the Laws of Big Data

Posted on May 25, 2012 by GilPress

Without using any predictive analytics tools, I confidently predict that Facebook’s IPO will give rise to more vocal demands for people to “get a cut” of its—and other social media companies’—profits. People deserve, so the argument goes, a share of … Continue reading →

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The Reality of Big Data: Findings from Recent Surveys

Posted on May 20, 2012 by GilPress

Big data tools and technologies emerged first from the companies the Web gave birth to–Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Amazon. No wonder that the term has become associated primarily with the ability to process and analyze large sets of unstructured, web-generated … Continue reading →

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Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside

Posted on May 13, 2012 by GilPress

Tim O’Reilly famously declared in 2005: “Data is the next Intel Inside.” It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Big Data and Data Science Events

Posted on May 1, 2012 by GilPress

From Data to Knowledge May 7-11, University of California, Berkeley

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A Very Short History of Data Science

Posted on April 26, 2012 by GilPress

I’m in the process of researching the origin and evolution of data science as a discipline and a profession. Here are the milestones that I have picked up so far, tracking the evolution of the term “data science,” attempts to … Continue reading →

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New Research Reports on Big Data

Posted on April 21, 2012 by GilPress

Two new research reports on big data flash out its early impact on enterprise IT.

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Domain Expertise vs. Machine Learning: The Debate Continues

Posted on April 18, 2012 by GilPress

“The startup’s three co-founders have backgrounds in engineering and data science, but not weather, and there are no meteorological models involved. By keeping weather predictions within a two-hour window, they believe statistics are sufficient.”–Mashable in “Can Statistics Predict Weather Without Meteorologists? … Continue reading →

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Data Science is so 1996!

Posted on April 15, 2012 by GilPress

Source: A History of the International Federation of Classifi cation Societies

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Graduate Programs in Big Data Analytics/Data Science

Posted on April 12, 2012 by GilPress

Updated list here Bentley University M.S. in Marketing Analytics DePaul University M.S. in Predictive Analytics

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