Category Archives: Big Data Analytics

Jeanne Ross on Why You May Not Need Big Data (Video)

“I think you grow into Big Data” Jeanne Ross, Director of MIT’s Sloan School Center for Information Systems Research, interviewed by Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin at the CDOIQ Symposium, July 23, 2104.

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Big Data and Statisticians, Revisited (Video)

[vimeo 91502942 w=500 h=257] Data Science, Big Data and Statistics – can we all live together? from Chalmers Internal on Vimeo. Terry Speed on how (and a bit on why) statisticians have been left out of the big data movement. … Continue reading

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The Big Data Landscape 2014

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Great Introduction to Hadoop (Video)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnS9PQRXTg] Adam Shook at the SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

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The Tom Davenport Guide to Big Data

Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities, is a new book from Tom Davenport, a veteran observer of the data analysis scene. It’s a required reading for managers that need a straightforward, hype-free introduction to big data, … Continue reading

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Bernard Marr on What is Big Data

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Big Data Debates: Individuals Vs. Teams

Gregory Piatetsky recently ran a poll on his popular KDnuggets website where he asked his readers to vote for the preferred way to build data science capabilities in their organizations. The poll was prompted by the strong reaction to a … Continue reading

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Joe Hellerstein and Tutti Taygerly on Big Data Moonshots and Predictive Interaction (Video)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ZPnKnt5So] “Automation is not the solution to data transformation and data cleaning” “Predictive Interaction is a new model for high-level human-data interaction that radically improves the productivity and accessibility of the most time-consuming work in the analytics lifecycle.”

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Ramona Pierson on Empowering Personalized Learning with Big Data (Video)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTHbSI8MVU] Ramona Pierson: “Humans are constantly curious and learning should be about making new discoveries. With big data, we have the potential to take formal learning which is taught and combine it with informal learning which is experienced, to … Continue reading

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Joe Hellerstein on Washing Data: Bringing Productivity Technology to Data Science (Video)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4hQlpPZLw]   Joe Hellerstein: “We are washing our data on the side of the river on stones, we are really in the early early stages of productivity technology in data science.”

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