Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data Quotes of the Week: September 14, 2012
“The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can’t replace the creative ideas”–Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed “…the overwhelming majority of enterprise IT systems can’t quite make up their digital minds. Is big data … Continue reading
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The Future of Big Data: Crawling Over Broken Glass?
Listening to Gartner analysts Sheila Childs and Merv Adrian talk recently about big data infrastructure challenges, I was reminded of a story Mike Ruettgers, former EMC Chairman and CEO, liked to tell about similar challenges in the early 1990s. At the … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week, September 7, 2012
“One of the great and often ignored challenges of Big Data is whether or not historical data is actually relevant to answering a given question”–Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group “Algorithms can really change the way we use energy and how we … Continue reading
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How Big Data is Changing the College Experience
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: August 31, 2012
“…the accumulated experience about what works and what doesn’t work for care management suggests that a ‘Small Data’ approach might be good enough for many medical groups, while being more immediately implementable and a lot less costly. We’re not convinced, … Continue reading
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Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Big Data
Louis Columbus at Forbes.com surveys key big data forecasts and market size estimates, including Gartner’s recent Hype Cycle for Big Data. The winning technologies in the immediate future? “Column-Store DBMS, Cloud Computing, In-Memory Database Management Systems will be the three most transformational technologies in … Continue reading
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The Digital Deluge: It’s Personal
Jeremy Reimer at Ars Technica writes about 35 years of personal digital devices, from the advent of PCs to smartphones and tablets. More and more devices in our hands translate into more and more digital bits created and shared every day. … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: August 10, 2012
“With big data, you have only two concerns, but they are, naturally, big ones: where the data will come from and what your company will do with it. Solve these and you have big data licked… IT projects have to … Continue reading
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Mingsheng Hong: The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager
Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great start yesterday with a presentation titled “The Scientist, The Team and The Purpose,” entertainingly delivered by Mingsheng Hong, Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt.
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Big Data Events
Big Data and Data Science Events August – November 2012 Last updated August 6, 2012 Highlights: Partner Events Big Data Innovation Summit September 13-14, Boston Predictive Analytics World–Government September 17-18, Washington DC To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and … Continue reading