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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

Nearly 50% of CEOs believe all of their employees have access to the data they need, only 27% of employees agree

  Source: Teradata and EIU RTBlog: Nearly half of CEOs believe that all of their employees have access to the data they need, but only 27% of employees agree. That’s according to study results from Teradata, a data analytics and … Continue reading

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Gartner Marketing Technology Map May 2016

Kirsten Newbold-Knipp, Gartner: Here are a few highlights from some of our 2016 marketing cool vendors reports as well as guidance on technology selection. Cool Vendors in Content Marketing: As content marketing grows up from its early tactical success to … Continue reading

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Buzzword Watch: What’s In and Out in Technology 2016

ComTIA: CompTIA evaluates trends for its IT Industry Outlook based on their recent or imminent impact. For developments that are just emerging, or trends that are still on under the radar, Buzzwords Watch provides a glimpse of terms that could … Continue reading

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History of the Internet of Things (IoT)

Source: Bill McCabe See also: A Very Short History Of The Internet Of Things

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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist

HT: @NinjaEconomics See also: Cleaning Big Data: Most Time-Consuming, Least Enjoyable Data Science Task, Survey

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DMway Automates Predictive Analytics

In its most recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, Gartner introduced “citizen data science” and “advanced analytics with self-service delivery.” Both technologies were predicted to reach the “plateau of productivity” in 2 to 5 years before The shortage of data … Continue reading

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Data Scientists Spend Most of Their Time Cleaning Data

A new survey of data scientists found that they spend most of their time massaging rather than mining or modeling data. Still, most are happy with having the sexiest job of the 21st century. The survey of about 80 data … Continue reading

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IoT: The Explosion of Connected Things

[vimeo 94011734 w=640 h=360] See also A Very Short History of the Internet of Things

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Video Surveillance Market to Reach $71.28 Billion by 2022

MarketsAndMarkets: Video Surveillance market is expected to be worth $71.28 Billion by 2022, growing at an estimated CAGR of 16.56%. The market for the service segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022. Cloud services … Continue reading

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A Growing Share of IoT Investment Goes to Industrial IoT

CB Insights: A growing slice of deals to Internet of Things startups are going to applications relevant to asset-heavy industries, including manufacturing, logistics, mining, oil, utilities and agriculture. Q1’16, for example, saw financings to enterprise drone developer Airware and industrial augmented-reality … Continue reading

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