Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data Quotes
“Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it…”—Dan Ariely “I’m a data janitor. That’s the sexiest job … Continue reading
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The Real World of Big Data (Infographic)
Click image to see a larger versionThe Real World of Big Data via Wikibon Infographics
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Mary Meeker’s Annual Survey of IT Trends
Mary Meeker, partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual survey of information technology trends at the AllThingsD D11 conference today. Her summary: “The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued … Continue reading
Big Data Industry Atlas
Source: Wikibon.org; Forbes Note: Actian has recently acquired ParAccel and Pervasive Software See also Top Ten Big Data Pure-Plays and Top 10 Most Funded Big Data Startups
3 Big Data Milestones
If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of the IT industry, which ones would you choose? Here’s my list: June 30, 1945: John Von Neumann published the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, … Continue reading
Bill Bratton on Predicitive Policing, Homeland and Hometown Security
“In preventing terrorism, as in preventing crime, the secret is data, the intelligence that you make out of it and how you use that intelligence,” Bill Bratton told the audience at the CEB TowerGroup Financial Services Technology Conference in Boston. Bratton, the … Continue reading
The Economist’s Kenneth Cukier on Big Data
Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor for The Economist talks to Fiammetta Rocco, The Economist’s Editor for Books and Arts about Big Data. See my review of Cukier’s (and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s) Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and … Continue reading
Grok CEO at GigaOM Structure 2013 (Video)
Rami Branitzky, CEO, Numenta (now called Grok): 45% of big data is high-velocity data. Since the advent of the smart meter utilities have seen 3000X growth in the data they store but only half a percent of the data is being acted … Continue reading
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Data Explosion: An Internet Minute
Today, the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population. Source: Intel
Moju Labs’ Smart Album: The Killer App for Google Glass?
Mok Oh wants to create a “Smart Photo Album.” I think it may well be the killer app for Google Glass. The most talked-about gadget of the moment, proudly displayed by only a handful of carefully selected early users, The Glass has … Continue reading