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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

How Americans Spend Their Time (Infographic)

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10 Most Successful Big Data Technologies

As the big data analytics market rapidly expands to include mainstream customers, which technologies are most in demand and promise the most growth potential? The answers can be found in TechRadar: Big Data, Q1 2016, a new Forrester Research report … Continue reading

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What Happens on the Internet in 60 Seconds

Excelrcom: So, what’s happened since 2015? The mass majority of these numbers have significantly increased from what happened in an Internet minute last year. This goes to show how consumers are continuously utilizing the Internet more and more each day, … Continue reading

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Top 10 Data Science Influencers on Twitter

ODSC: To build a network and find the most influential data science twitter uses, we will use the NetworkX2 package to create a directed graph and to calculate eigenvector centrality (a measure of network influence) among the nodes (twitter users)… … Continue reading

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Market for securing IoT devices will increase 5X over next 5 years

Business Intelligence: A new report from Argus Insights analyzed more than 2.3 social media comments about the IoT since the start of 2016, and “concerns” and “real world applications” were the two biggest topics of conversation… The conversations on social … Continue reading

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5 Origins of Data Science

Source: Impact of Big Data on Analytics

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Gartner Hype Cycle for Telemedicine and Virtual Care

Source:  Gartner

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Comparing Claims Data and EHR Data for the Same Patients

Arcadia Data: In healthcare analytics, Claims data are ubiquitous. They have been available for decades and are highly structured and standardized. Unfortunately, they are also relatively sparse, containing only a handful of procedure codes and diagnoses for each episode. EHR … Continue reading

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Digital Trends 2016 (Infographic)

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10 Jobs that Barely Existed 5 Years Ago

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