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

Doing Data Science at Manheim

Posted on February 12, 2014 by GilPress

As ones and zeros eat the world, data is the new product and data science is the new process of innovation. The International Institute for Analytics predicts that in 2014 companies in a variety of industries will increasingly use analytics … Continue reading →

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Satya Nadella, New Microsoft CEO, on the Digitization of Everything (Video)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by GilPress

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE?list=PL6RKqpezpCYp5-XtFje-AeT4XHOs0X4ZK] Satya Nadella on the Microsoft Blog: On Tuesday at LeWeb’13 in Paris, I joined Om Malik on stage to talk with thousands of entrepreneurs, startups and large companies about technology and where we’re headed as an industry. The … Continue reading →

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Design Thinking for Dummies (Data Scientists)

Posted on February 3, 2014 by GilPress

[slideshare id=30767715&style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] Strata preview 2014: Design thinking for dummies (data scientists) from Dean Malmgren Data scientists often face ambiguous challenges and, as a group, should use and make use … Continue reading →

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Why Ones and Zeros Are Eating the World

Posted on January 24, 2014 by GilPress

30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984, was a huge leap … Continue reading →

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Tim O’Reilly on Open Data

Posted on January 22, 2014 by GilPress

[brightcove vid=3058495035001&exp3=1971702156001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=1971571337001&pk=AQ~~,AAABywrPJyk~,MP34hwWOTrPs3yLiJKkINM_zsiFWIvnW&lbu=http://www.mckinsey.com/videos/video?vid=3058495035001%26plyrid=2399849255001%26Height=270%26Width=480&w=300&h=225] Source: McKinsey “We should define a little bit what we mean by “open,” because there’s open as in it’s open source. Anybody can take it and reuse it in whatever way they want. And I’m not sure that’s … Continue reading →

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2013 Data Science Salary Survey: Open source tools correlate with higher salary

Posted on January 18, 2014 by GilPress

“In our report, 2013 Data Science Salary Survey, we make our own data-driven contribution to the conversation. We collected a survey from attendees of the Strata Conference in New York and Santa Clara, California, about tool usage and salary… What … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Predictions for $2.14 Trillion IT Market in 2014: IDC

Posted on December 12, 2013 by GilPress

IDC issued recently its top 10 predictions for 2014. IDC’s Frank Gens predicted that 2014 “will be about pitched battles” and a coming IT industry consolidation around a small number of big “winners.” The industry landscape will change as “incumbents … Continue reading →

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The Digitization of Everything or the Coming of the Internet of Flying Things

Posted on December 2, 2013 by GilPress

To: Mr C.Grant Your @amazon order has been dispatched. pic.twitter.com/jg1eMmQMYj — Jingle Boles (@GeneralBoles) December 2, 2013 My post on Inside Tech Talk: The only bit of news—and a lot of buzz—that came out of Jeff Bezos’ interview with Charlie … Continue reading →