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

3 Recent Books on Data Mining, Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Posted on May 14, 2015 by GilPress

Now that most of the hype around big data has died down, overtaken by the buzz over the Internet of Things, we are sometimes treated to serious discussions of the state-of-the-art (or science, for that matter) in data analysis. If … Continue reading →

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This Is Not Your Father’s IT Industry: The Rise of the Outsiders

Posted on April 28, 2015 by GilPress

You probably heard the news about the CFO of Morgan Stanley becoming the new Google CFO and the on-going migration of Wall Street bankers to Silicon Valley (here and here). But did you know that this is just a surface … Continue reading →

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What is Data Science? (Video)

Posted on April 27, 2015 by GilPress

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Analysis of Smartphone Usage on US Highways

Posted on April 22, 2015 by GilPress

Wefi, the Mobile Data Analytics company, analyzed data collected from over 70,000 devices driven over 3.5 million miles on six major interstates.

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Data Science Is Making Trains More Efficient (Video)

Posted on April 20, 2015 by GilPress

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How Will Robots Evolve? (Video)

Posted on April 20, 2015 by GilPress

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The Rise of the Outsiders and the Future of the IT Industry

Posted on April 13, 2015 by GilPress

You probably heard the news about the CFO of Morgan Stanley becoming the new Google CFO and the on-going migration of Wall Street bankers to Silicon Valley (here and here). But did you know that this is just a surface … Continue reading →

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The History and Impact of the Hashtag

Posted on April 10, 2015 by GilPress

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Data Science at Zillow (Slideshare)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by GilPress

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Bruce Schneier’s Must-Read Book on Security and Privacy

Posted on April 8, 2015 by GilPress

“The surveillance society snuck up on us,” says Bruce Schneier in Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. It’s a thought-provoking, absorbing, and comprehensive guide to our new big data world. Most important, … Continue reading →

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