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 […]
Dan Woods brings the context of more than 25 years of experience in technology and journalism to his speaking engagements. Having interviewed more than 1,000 technology experts and authored more than 20 books, Dan adapts his vision of making technology work to virtually any context.
If you are facing a thorny IT problem, Dan Woods can probably solve it. Dan’s background as a CTO and his 25 years in the technology industry enable him to create new technology architectures and debug organizational problems while allowing everyone to be heard.
