Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Pressed Data: Best of 2016
In Pressed Data, my Forbes.com column, I try to chronicle the evolution of digital technologies, their business impact, and the people behind the innovations, business models, and new ideas. In 2016, I covered artificial intelligence—the 60-year-old new new thing, … Continue reading
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McKinsey Updates Estimates of Big Data Potential Value
Source: McKinsey, 2011 [In 2011], we estimated the potential for big data and analytics to create value in five specific domains. Revisiting them today shows uneven progress and a great deal of that value still on the table (exhibit). The … Continue reading
Who needs economists when ‘the data speak for themselves’?
The Economist: Machine learning is still new enough for the backlash to be largely restricted to academic eye-rolling. But some familiar themes are emerging in this latest craze. In principle, these new techniques should protect economists from their own sloppy … Continue reading
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Internet of Things: To Fog or to Cloud?
BI Intelligence: Cloud computing, usually just called “the cloud,” involves delivering data, applications, photos, videos, and more over the Internet to data centers. The Internet of Things, meanwhile, is the term for the connection of devices (other than the standard ones such as computers … Continue reading
China: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
Gartner: Despite the slowdown in GDP growth to 6.9 percent in 2015, China is still making aggressive investments to drive the adoption of high technology by local enterprises and organizations, according to Gartner, Inc… The massive consumer base and the … Continue reading
Benchmarking Your Analytics Initiative
Analytics is both the lifeblood and livelihood of digital native companies such as Google and Facebook which thrive by analyzing the data generated by their Web position to drive their access to and engagement with millions of people. This analytics … Continue reading
Tom Davenport on 4 Eras of Information
From Tom Davenport’s keynote at the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (#MITCDOIQ) Symposium. Here’s his interview at the conference with TheCube: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kyxbbLKDnE?list=PLenh213llmcZcYCPURdubASWiM3TEb9aS]
Artificial Intelligence is the New Big Data
Source: CB Insights Trends
Andy Palmer on Data Unification in Biopharma (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrlTlhJ6VWw?rel=0] See also Turing Award-Winner Stonebraker On The Future Of Taming Big Data
Self-Service Business Intelligence On Hadoop
AtScale announced on May 16, 2016, that it has raised $11 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to date to $20 million. The round was led Comcast Ventures, with participation from UMC, AME Ventures, Storm Ventures … Continue reading
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