Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data’s Big Unintended Consequences
Marcus Wigan expands on his Computer article “Big Data’s Big Unintended Consequences” and discusses how businesses and governments exploit big data without regard for issues of legality, data quality, disparate data meanings, and process quality. This often results in poor … Continue reading
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Big Data in Big Companies: Tom Davenport and Jill Dyche on their Latest Research
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Kyr8km4EM] From the executive summary of the research report (PDF): “Big data may be new for startups and for online firms, but many large firms view it as something they have been wrestling with for years. Some managers appreciate the … Continue reading
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Edd Dumbill on the Internet of Things and Data Science
Edd Dumbill, VP Strategy, Silicon Valley Data Science: “There’s cultural change, we see that with data analytics. Tools are half of the problem, culture is the other.” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPpNAbDnZM]
Industrial Internet Size in 2020: Half a Trillion Dollars
Industrial Internet defined as The connection of industrial machine sensors and actuators to local processing and to the Internet; The onward connection to other important industrial networks that can independently generate value. Source: Defining and Sizing the Industrial Internet Update: … Continue reading
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Big Data Arrives at the Oxford English Dictionary
From the new quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary: big data n. Computing (also with capital initials) data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its manipulation and management present significant logistical challenges; (also) the branch of computing involving … Continue reading
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New Scientist on Big Data (Infographic)
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Big Data Quotes: What Hath the NSA Wrought?
“So what are we getting [for the NSA’s investment in Big Data]? It sounds like the same thing big enterprises everywhere get when they have open checkbooks and no sound strategy: Ballooning budgets full of overhyped PowerPoint presentations and technology … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes: Is a Bigger NSA Better?
“The effectiveness of data-mining is proportional to the size of the sample, so the NSA must sweep broadly to learn what is normal and refine the deviations”–Wall Street Journal editorial “Now go out and gather some data, and see what it can … Continue reading
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Hadoop 0.1
CNBC: The name [Hadoop] is a homey story going back 10 years—into the realm of a toddler’s experimentation with old-fashioned human language. Cutting’s son, then 2, was just beginning to talk and called his beloved stuffed yellow elephant “Hadoop” (with … Continue reading
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