Category Archives: Big Data
Most Hyped Technologies: Self-Driving Cars, Self-Service Analytics, IoT; No More Big Data Buzz
Gartner just released its 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report. It’s our most reliable buzz bellwether, annually defining what’s in and what’s out. At the peak of inflated expectations just two years ago, Big Data was dethroned by the Internet of … Continue reading
Steve Papa: Data volume is cumulative, analyses possibilities are combinatoric (video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKSCFBZzlM?rel=0] Steve Papa is an active founder and venture capitalist. As founder of Parallel Wireless he is making the deployment of the carrier-grade LTE RAN as easy as deploying enterprise Wi-Fi. As investor, he is active both as a … Continue reading
Competing on AI: The New ‘New Science of Winning’
Data is eating the world, one buzzword at a time. In 2017, The Economist declared in “Data is Giving Rise to a New Economy”: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth and change.” And … Continue reading
Big Data and Data Science Events September-December 2012
Big Data and Data Science Events September – December 2012 Last updated September 16, 2012 TDWI World Conference Sep 16–21, Boston Predictive Analytics World–Government September 17-18, Washington DC *** To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, … 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
Will a Worldwide Healthcare Data Platform Help Fight Future Pandemics?
To respond effectively to a global pandemic, governments need to have access to very large volumes of healthcare data, collected over a long period of time with patient privacy protected, and sourced from many locations and populations around the world. … Continue reading
Data is Eating the World
From fueling the recent success of “artificial intelligence” (AI) and the rise of “digital transformation” to its accelerated growth due to Covid-19 to new approaches to its “monetization” to how it makes businesses and consumers both anxious and animated, data dominates our deeds, debates, and dreams. Continue reading
3 Recent Books on Data Mining, Data Science and Big Data Analytics
Now that most of the hype around big data has died down, overtaken by the buzz over the Internet of Things, we are sometimes treated to serious discussions of the state-of-the-art (or science, for that matter) in data analysis. If … Continue reading
The Data Index, March 2021
Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives. Read more