Category Archives: Big Data
Big Data Events June-September 2012
Most recent update: June 2, 2012 International Conference on Advancements in Information Technology 2012 June 2-3, Hong Kong Data Analysis Conference: Tools of the Trade June 4-5, Atlantic City, New Jersey TDWI Solution Summit: Big Data Analytics for Real-Time Business Advantage … Continue reading
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Machines vs. Models, Noise vs. Signal
An excerpt from Nassim Taleb’s forthcoming book, Antifragile, was posted yesterday on the Farnam Street blog. In “Noise and Signal,” Taleb says that “In business and economic decision-making, data causes severe side effects —data is now plentiful thanks to connectivity; … Continue reading
Facebook’s IPO and the Laws of Big Data
Without using any predictive analytics tools, I confidently predict that Facebook’s IPO will give rise to more vocal demands for people to “get a cut” of its—and other social media companies’—profits. People deserve, so the argument goes, a share of … Continue reading
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Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside
Tim O’Reilly famously declared in 2005: “Data is the next Intel Inside.” It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most … Continue reading
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A Very Short History of Data Science
I’m in the process of researching the origin and evolution of data science as a discipline and a profession. Here are the milestones that I have picked up so far, tracking the evolution of the term “data science,” attempts to … Continue reading
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New Research Reports on Big Data
Two new research reports on big data flash out its early impact on enterprise IT.
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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 Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?
The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.” Is … Continue reading
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The First Law of Big Data
EMC released today the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC. So now we have five years’ worth of estimating, with a consistent methodology, the amount of data created and copied annually in the world. It turns out that the … Continue reading
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