by Angela Guess Michael Zimmer reports in Wired, “On May 8, a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid, including usernames, age, gender, location, what kind of relationship… they’re interested in, personality traits, and answers to thousands of profiling questions used by the site. […]
How Cognitive Data Science Can Cure the Talent Shortage
Click here to learn more about author Sundeep Sanghavi. The Internet of Things and its interconnected approach has led to an overwhelming explosion of big data. About 6.4 billion connected devices are already in use today, and Gartner expects that number to reach 20.8 billion by 2020. This growth is big business; it’s estimated that […]
Combining Big Data and Sentiment Analysis: A Marketer’s Dream
by Angela Guess Daniel Newman recently wrote in Forbes, “In the days before big data opened doors to seemingly exponential analytical insight, sales and marketing teams often played a guessing game. Were campaigns working? Who were they reaching? What did people think about them? Audience targeting was one way to cut through the noise, but […]
Best Practices for NoSQL Databases
by Angela Guess Wayne Kernochan recently shared his thoughts on NoSQL best practices in Enterprise Apps Today. His list begins, “(1) In many if not most cases, the NoSQL database should be used as a complement to an existing or additional relational database that at the least handles deeper post-arrival data analytics. (2) All else […]
55 Big Data Startups Worth Watching
by Angela Guess Rick Whiting recently put together a list of 55 Big Data startups to watch for CRN. His list includes, “Alation. Top Executive: CEO Satyen Sangani. Alation exited stealth last year, debuting its enterprise data-accessibility platform that’s designed to help people more easily find, understand, use and govern their data for making faster […]
Fighting Zika with Big Data
by Angela Guess Greg Gillespie recently wrote in Health Data Management, “The Zika virus is sending a chill down the collective spine of healthcare providers and government agencies. So far, Brazil has confirmed nearly 3,000 cases of pregnant women infected with the virus, and the disease is spreading through the Americas. Kamran Khan says there’s […]
No Relief with Hadoop – Managing The Big Data Reality Gap
Click here to learn more about author Jon Bock. There has been much anticipation that businesses would find relief for their analytics headaches in Hadoop, the open source software for distributed processing and distributed storage of large data sets across clusters of commodity or cloud hardware. There is no doubt Hadoop systems can handle large […]
Four Reasons Unifying Integration & Data Management is the Secret to Big Data Success
Click here to learn more about author Ian Huynh. Big Data has become one of the most transformative IT developments of the decade with unprecedented amounts of granular data being generated and collected for analysis across a wide range of sources. Virtually every business recognizes the intrinsic value and insights Big Data represents when it comes […]
Embracing Big Data Tools: Lessons Learned at EDW 2016
by Angela Guess Jack Vaughan reports in Search Data Management, “The onslaught of big data, with its high data volumes and diverse data structures, has given rise to new technologies in the form of NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark and the like. NoSQL, particularly, calls for changes in established data modeling techniques. Some basic learning is in […]
How to Avoid Becoming Data Rich But Insight Poor
by Angela Guess Bernard Marr recently wrote in Forbes, “Most companies I interact with already have too much data. With this post, I would like to make the point that people and companies already can’t cope with the data they have today, let alone the data that is around the corner. Most of them believe […]