Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
A Modern Data Analyst
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ysw5MGaYk] The Modern Data Analyst I am the very model of a Modern Data Analyst, If insights you are needing I can whip you up a priceless list I know the hits and clickthroughs and I slice them categorical … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Scientists
Leave a comment
Structured and Unstructured Data 2010-2015
Source: BI Intelligence “Structured” and “Unstructured” data are somewhat misleading terms. All forms of human communications have some structure (e.g., language) and machine-generated data typically has a structure because it is designed to have one. What we have is a … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data Analytics, Data Growth
Leave a comment
2013 Data Science Salary Survey: Open source tools correlate with higher salary
“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
GE’s Bill Ruh on Big Data: The most interesting thing happening to our machines in a long time
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jV8e9BMuqE&w=560&h=315] Bill Ruh, VP of software at GE, discusses the foundational changes that big data is bringing to the industrial world through sensor data and the myriad real-time measurements that are now possible. He looks at the impact of collecting more … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things
Leave a comment
Bill Franks on Big Data = Who Cares???!!! (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX0-tNhg4LQ&w=560&h=315] “Data doesn’t lead you to a business problem… Your business problem leads you to the right data!” Bill Franks, chief analytics officer at Teradata, discusses the importance of making data add value in the enterprise. Collecting petabytes of data … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data Analytics
Leave a comment
VCs Developing In-House Tech-Expertise-as-a-Service
Ashlee Vance writes in “Netflix Loses Its Cloud Guru to a VC Firm”: “It used to be good enough for venture capitalists just to hand out money. Well, not anymore. Now they’re expected to offer up a suite of services … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data Analytics, Venture capital
Leave a comment
947 Companies in the New Marketing Technology Landscape
Scott Brinker: the above graphic is the latest incarnation of my marketing technology landscape supergraphic. It represents a whopping 947 different companies that provide software for marketers, organized into 43 categories across 6 major classes.
Posted in Big Data Analytics
Leave a comment
The Evolution of Big Data Processing at Google (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGHBKjYAmZ0&w=560&h=315] Google’s Daniel Sturman at the IEEE Computer Society’s “Rock Stars of Big Data” event, October 29, 2013.
Posted in Big Data Analytics
Leave a comment
God, Big Data Religion, and Studying Culture
Reviewing Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture, Nick Romeo writes in The Daily Beast: “The authors were instrumental in creating the Google Ngram viewer, which allows researchers or anyone else so inclined to explore the changing frequencies … Continue reading
Explaining Big Data by ExplainingComputers (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1CQ_LOizA]