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Mary Meeker’s Annual Survey of IT Trends
Mary Meeker, partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual survey of information technology trends at the AllThingsD D11 conference today. Her summary: “The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued … Continue reading
Big Data and Marketing
Data-Rich and Insight-Poor: Marketers Planning to Turn Information Into Intelligence in 2013 Survey Report Sponsored by Yesmail Interactive and Infogroup Targeting Solutions
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Are You Social, Mr. CEO?
Integrating data from social networks with other data sources is a big reason for companeis to invest in big data technologies and processes. But at the top, is there sufficient understanding of the value of social networks and the data … Continue reading
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How Much Data is Generated Every Minute?
Data Never Sleeps from Domo
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New Big Data Infographic
Big data infographic from CenturyLink
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The Rise and Rise of Data Scientists
There has been a 500-fold increase in the number of “mathematicians and information technologists” between 1950 and 2000. Source: Places & Spaces
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Big Data and Borges
From the May 26 issue of the Economist: “In A short story called ‘On Exactitude in Science’, Jorge Luis Borges described an empire in which cartographers became so obsessive that they produced a map as big as the empire itself. … Continue reading
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