Click to learn more about author Todd Forsythe. Who doesn’t have a drawer full of items they might need at some point, but haven’t used in months or even years? We’re all familiar with unintentional hoarding of things that may have been useful at one point but end up collecting dust and taking up unnecessary […]
How to Get Your Board Members to Love Big Data
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. As folks in the technology business, we tend to see the best possibilities for emerging technologies; we can easily visualize how the latest and greatest can be used to make us more productive and profitable. Even when we’re hesitant to be the first to […]
The Data Blackhole – and How You Can Avoid Falling in it
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Based on a study of two major European markets, the UK and Germany, IT and business decision makers revealed how they made of use of their data and how to avoid the data blackhole. If anyone asked you to do a complete audit of all of your […]
Infogix Analyzes Seven Hot Data Trends for 2019
According to a recent press release, “Infogix, a leading provider of data management tools, today unveiled its third edition of annual trends in data management that will have major ramifications on businesses in 2019 and beyond. ‘One of the most important themes we’re seeing this year is the way enterprises are turning their data into […]
Data Management Buzzword Bingo: Low Hanging Fruit, Sentiment Analysis, Scalable, and More!
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. I was recently reminded of a game we used to play during particularly boring meetings and presentations called Buzzword Bingo. Several people claimed to have invented the game and it was very popular for a period of time when buzzwords were fairly new to Data Management and it […]
Denial, It Ain’t Just a River in Egypt…Especially, When It Comes to Dark Data
Click to learn more about author Bill Tolson. I remember being a kid, with the start of the new school year looming. Even though I actually liked school, I was never really ready to relinquish the lazy hazy days of summer. Instead, my theory was that if I just didn’t think about it, sandlot baseball, swims […]
Data Lake vs. Data Swamp: Leveraging Enterprise Data
One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]
Data Science Education: Stanford University’s Program
The Stanford Data Science education program is small with competitive acceptance requirements. It is administrated by their Statistics Department. Guenther Walther, Chairman of the Statistics Department, was asked what students can do to get in the program. He responded: “The admissions process is competitive, indeed. We had close to 400 applicants for the eight spots […]
Talena and Arcadia Data Partner to Shed Light on Dark Big Data
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Talena, the always-on big data pioneer today announced a partnership with Arcadia Data, the industry’s first unified visual analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform for big data. Companies using Talena ActiveRX™ and Arcadia Enterprise in combination can turn typically passive big data backups into active clusters […]
Data Extractor Express Unlocks Dark Data for Use in Big Data Analytics
I’ll by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Crawford Technologies announced today the general release of its newest solution, ‘Data Extractor Express’, a ground-breaking product that enables access to large amounts of data stored in ECM solutions and prepares it for reuse in analytics applications. The first solution of its kind, ‘Data Extractor Express’ […]