Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Gartner on Big Data
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes of the Week: August 3, 2012
“Data is no longer a convenience, it is no longer an asset we need to keep clean and tidy. It is in fact a factor of production. It is essential to the way we deliver our goods and services to … Continue reading
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The Big Data Interview: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO, EMC
If data sits on a desk somewhere and is not being used, it’s an opportunity wasted Sanjay Mirchandani believes IT has to take the lead in adding value to the business in the form of big data “addictive analytics.” Mirchandani … Continue reading
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The Future of Big Data: Good, Bad or Ugly?
The Pew Internet Project, in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, recently published a report on the future of big data, based on a “non-random online sample of 1,021 Internet experts and other Internet users.”
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: July 27, 2012
“Knowing the right question, or problem to solve is very important. Sometimes the computer scientists are [pressed into service as] data scientists. But computer scientists are not trained to ask the right business questions. They might be asking some other … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes of the Week: July 20, 2012
“At least in the data world, simple algorithms on more data seems to yield better results than complex algorithms on a smaller data sample, notwithstanding some exceptions”– Ashish Thusoo, Qubole “Some of the best data scientists I see often have … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“In traditional biology research, people ask a key question, or run a trial. They make clinical and molecular measurements to address that question. They use some statistics or computation. Then they validate what they’ve found in another, more advanced trial. … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes of the Week
“All the lenders are data poor. We hope we can make them data rich, insight rich”– Douglas Merrill, ZestFinance “Many companies have these Fort Knox data depots, where they collect enormous amounts of critical data that’s inaccessible, or just not … Continue reading
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Big Data News Flash: First Ever U.S. Census Bureau API
The Census Bureau is releasing its first ever API. This online service provides the building blocks for developers to design online and mobile apps, such as interactive maps, charts and databases, using a variety of Census Bureau statistics. The API … Continue reading
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Revisiting Big Data and Crowdsourcing: Kaggle Today
I launched this blog a year ago in June 2011. In one of my first posts, I discussed “Crowdsourcing and Big Data,” offering a typology of crowdsourcing and connecting it to big data by mentioning a little-known (at the time) … Continue reading