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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

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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60 Fastest Growing and Declining Occupations

http://visual.ly/track.php?q=http://visual.ly/future-work-60-fastest-growing-and-declining-occupations-united-states&slug=future-work-60-fastest-growing-and-declining-occupations-united-states From Visually.

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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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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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