Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data and Marketing
Data-Rich and Insight-Poor: Marketers Planning to Turn Information Into Intelligence in 2013 Survey Report Sponsored by Yesmail Interactive and Infogroup Targeting Solutions
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Kenneth Cukier Keynote at Strata Conference London 2012: The Manifest Destiny of Big Data
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How the Obama Campaign Learned from Republicans How to Learn Our Secrets
Last February, Forbes’ Kashmir Hill got our attention (over 1.9 million views by now) by pulling a golden big data nugget—“How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”—from a long New York Times article by … Continue reading
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Big Data in 2013
From the Economist‘s The World in 2013 Festival, Shirley Ann Jackson, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rachel Sterne Haot, chief digital officer for New York City. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS9TGXIKztk]
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The Big Data Map (U.S.)
Recorded Future mapped the online discussions of and news about big data related to various cities over the last four years, colored by associated companies, if any are mentioned. New York leads, followed by Boston/Cambridge and San Francisco. Maybe we … Continue reading
Big Data: The Moving Parts
Source: Dion Hinchcliffe, “The enterprise opportunity of Big Data: Closing the ‘clue gap,’” August 15, 2011
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science Content Online Analyzing Big Data with Twitter (UC Berkeley, School of Information) (Fall 2012) Introduction to Data Science (Columbia University, Statistics Department) (Fall 2012 Introduction to Data Science (UC Berkeley, Computer Science) (Spring … Continue reading
Graduate Programs in Big Data Analytics/Data Science
Updated list here Bentley University M.S. in Marketing Analytics DePaul University M.S. in Predictive Analytics
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: December 8, 2012
“There are a number of new business models emerging in the big data world. In my research, I see three main approaches standing out. The first focuses on using data to create differentiated offerings. The second involves brokering this information. … Continue reading
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Jeff Hammerbacher on the Future of Data Science
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