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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

Big Data Bytes: More on What’s a Data Scientist?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by GilPress

Chuck Hollis calls Data Scientists “rock stars” and argues that they are “a fundamentally different profession with a different profile than the BI analysts that came before [them].  They’re more likely to have advanced degrees, frequently have a background in … Continue reading →

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Big Data Bytes of the Week: What’s a Data Scientist?

Posted on December 3, 2011 by GilPress

What’s a Data Scientist? Joshua Konkle, Vice President at DCIG, quoted (scroll down) a few definitions earlier this week:

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Big Data Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by GilPress

The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.”  Is … Continue reading →

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Asking Good Questions is What Will Make Big Data Work for You

Posted on August 14, 2011 by GilPress

Asking good questions as the key to unleashing the potential of big data got significant blog time this past week.

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The 7 Cs of the Cloud: A Big Data Taxonomy

Posted on July 17, 2011 by GilPress

What’s the new landscape of the information business as Cloud Computing and the Big Data Wave usher in the Age of Big Cloud Data (ABCD)?

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The First Law of Big Data

Posted on June 28, 2011 by GilPress

EMC released today the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC.  So now we have five years’ worth of estimating, with a consistent methodology, the amount of data created and copied annually in the world. It turns out that the … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing and Big Data

Posted on June 22, 2011 by GilPress

The Wikipedia article on Big Data says it “requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process large quantities of data within tolerable elapsed times.” The examples given (Hadoop, MapReduce, Cloud Computing, etc.) do not include one very exceptional technology, the human brain, … Continue reading →

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Big Data News Roundup

Posted on June 14, 2011 by GilPress

IBM’s Watson visited a few conferences last week. Watson’s lead developer, David Ferrucci delivered a keynote at the ACM’s 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference in San Jose, CA.

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Hunch.com: Training the Web to be Your Friend

Posted on June 6, 2011 by GilPress

Would you like the Web to understand your inner GPS? Then go to Hunch.com and start training the Web. After answering a few questions about your tastes, preferences, and opinions, you will get a set of recommendations from other Hunch … Continue reading →

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Big Data for Enterprise Decisions

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

James Taylor: “For all the focus on visualization and ad-hoc queries in Big Data systems, the end result is often going to be automation – a Decision Management system. 

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