by Angela Guess Mike Orcutt recently wrote in the MIT Technology Review, “If Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot is really going to double the pace of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer, it’s going need a lot more data. That means it’s probably going to need more data-sharing arrangements like one announced at […]
PredictionCX Uses Big Data to Predict Customer Actions
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MaritzCX, a global customer experience (CX) software and services company, today announced the availability of PredictionCX™, the first-of-its-kind solution to help businesses grow by analyzing known customer information and using it to predict customer behavior and take action to improve CX for individual customers. […]
New Guide Shares the Potential of Big Data in Restaurants
by Angela Guess FastCasual recently reported, “Big data can help restaurant owners analyze customer location-based information which can lead to improved customer service and improve overall business. That’s the focus of a new guide, available for free on Fast Casual and sponsored by GoodData. It explains how to collect information from all aspects of a […]
Quickly Processing Visual Data Could Help First Responders in Disaster Scenarios
by Angela Guess A new release out of the University of Missouri reports, “In natural or man-made disasters, the ability to process massive amounts of visual electronic data quickly and efficiently could mean the difference between life and death for survivors. Visual data created by numerous security cameras, personal mobile devices and aerial video provide […]
MapR Announces Spyglass Initiative
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, announced today at Hadoop Summit the Spyglass Initiative — a comprehensive, open, and extensible approach for increasing user and administrator productivity. The first in a series of releases as part of the Spyglass […]
Big City, Big Data: Data Science Education at Columbia University
Columbia University’s Data Science education programs are fairly new, with the Data Science Institute founded in 2012. The program seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on more than 200 faculty from the nine schools that make up the university. The classes were intentionally designed especially for these programs, not pulled from existing courses. Research […]
New Report: Why Analytics Investments Have Yet to Pay Off
by Angela Guess ZS Associates has published a new report entitled, “Broken links: Why analytics investments have yet to pay off.” The report is free to download here. According to ZS Associates, “Sales and marketing analytics is integral to the ability of companies to thrive in today’s markets. In an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey […]
Making Your Data Progressively Smarter
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data is data. It’s not inherently dumb or smart. What matters is whether your data, be it large or small, contributes to smarter decisions. How can you leverage your big-data resource so that it drives smarter decisions? Last year, DATAVERSITY published this thought-provoking Dataversity article in which they stated […]
Learning from BigCo’s Attempts to Leverage Data
by Angela Guess Peter Aiken has published a new article titled “Succeeding at Data Management–BigCo Attempts to Leverage Big Data.” The article was published in the Journal of Data and Information Quality, and is free to download here. Aiken writes in the abstract, “In a manner similar to most organizations, BigCompany (BigCo) was determined to […]
How Big Data Systems Can Empower You to Ask New, Better Questions
by Angela Guess Roy Wilds recently wrote in Information Management, “You think you know what’s in your data. But there may be a lot more there than you realize. The combination of big data and modern data science can empower you to ask questions in entirely new ways, and uncover answers locked away in your […]