Wal-Mart had a big data problem before it was called “big data.” So did McDonald’s and any number of other massive companies. Big Data Problems From very early on, Wal-Mart had a big data problem, before it was called “big data.” So did McDonald’s and any number of other massive companies. These companies also had […]
Start planning for a world where signals are harvested from external repositories through APIs with built-in analytics. It is time for CIOs and CTOs to start planning for a world in which signals are harvested from external repositories through distributed APIs that have intelligence and analytics built in. So, today I’m starting a mission to […]
The idea that we won’t have to clean and disambiguate data is ludicrous. We’ve lived with enterprise business intelligence (BI) for several decades now, and it’s no secret that many of us are fed up with the inability of such expensive technology to deliver the business value we need. Some vendors have keyed into this […]
Data scientists are needed to help turn big data into a richer model of the customer. What is a data scientist? That’s the question asked of Dan Woods in this brief video interview from Predictive Analytics World. Woods weighs in on areas such as whether data scientist should really be a new job title, the […]
The first draft of a program for finding and making use of external data to improve business results. In the Forbes article “Do You Suffer From the ‘Data Not Invented Here’ Syndrome”, Dan Woods proposed that the data created and maintained outside of one’s company is becoming more important than the data that can be […]
One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica. The 2012 Obama re-election campaign has important implications for organizations that want to make better use of big data. The hype about its use of data is certainly […]
Getting value from big data is everyone’s problem, even LOLCats. If you think staring at LOLCats or the FAIL Blog is wasting time at work, try telling that to Notorious BIT—that’s the Business Intelligence Team, a three-person delta force in charge of analytics at Cheezburger, the online humor network. With more than 30,000 websites in […]
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from data, just like Hilary Mason and DJ Patil? Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from data, just like Hilary Mason and DJ Patil? Yes, it would, but this idea doesn’t have a hope of working unless the citizens in question […]
Hadoop vendors are thrilled with the uptake of Hadoop by mainstream IT buyers, it won’t be good news for the businesses buying the technology unless more than just Hadoop crosses the chasm. Lots of the Hadoop vendors are thrilled with the uptake of Hadoop by mainstream IT buyers. While this is good news for the […]
There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss is all about. That time has come for Spark. There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss […]
