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

Top 10 Data Science Influencers on Twitter

Posted on April 22, 2016 by GilPress

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

Posted on April 22, 2016 by GilPress

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

Posted on April 18, 2016 by GilPress

Source: Impact of Big Data on Analytics

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Gartner Hype Cycle for Telemedicine and Virtual Care

Posted on April 13, 2016 by GilPress

Source:  Gartner

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Comparing Claims Data and EHR Data for the Same Patients

Posted on April 12, 2016 by GilPress

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)

Posted on April 12, 2016 by GilPress
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10 Jobs that Barely Existed 5 Years Ago

Posted on April 6, 2016 by GilPress
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Amazon Facts and Figures

Posted on April 5, 2016 by GilPress
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How Digital is Your Industry?

Posted on April 4, 2016 by GilPress

Prashant Gandhi, Somesh Khanna and Sree Ramaswamy in the Harvard Business Review: …what are the key attributes of a digital leader? And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? We looked at 27 indicators that fall into three broad categories: digital assets, digital … Continue reading →

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Big Data Self-Delusion

Posted on April 2, 2016 by GilPress

The most compelling story told in the new documentary “The Human Face of Big Data” (PBS, February 24), is about the collection and analysis of data to predict the onset of potentially deadly infection in premature babies. By the time … Continue reading →

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