Business Users

21 May, 2013

There’s Data In That Toothbrush (And Lots Of Other Products, Too)

Imagine for a second that you could interview a product. How often is it being used? For how long? And where in the house does it live?

Sounds crazy, but it’s increasingly probable as marketers mine for data beyond the usual places — web browsers, loyalty programs and smartphones — and…

Publication: Ad Age

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21 May, 2013

How A Small Business Can Use Big Data

Big data is big news in today’s digitized world. With the explosion of Internet usage and social media networks, there’s a massive cloud of data being generated about people all over the world, and it’s growing at an exponential rate…

Publication: Small Business Trends

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21 May, 2013

BeatDeck’s Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are

Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today…

Publication: TechCrunch

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20 May, 2013

Big Data Is Watching You

The Internet can convert private affairs into an object of public surveillance. Author, Evgeny Morozov, tells you how Big Data is being used for Project BinCam in Britain and Germany…

Publication: NY Times

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20 May, 2013

Living By The Numbers: Big Data Knows What Your Future Holds

Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can predict your next purchase, forecast car thefts and maybe even help cure cancer. But there is a down side…

Publication: Spiegel

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16 May, 2013

How Tablets Are Driving A Huge Explosion In Mobile Video

In a recent report, BI Intelligence breaks down the mobile video ecosystem, analyzing the behavior and devices behind the growth in consumption, and examining the demographics and behavior of mobile video consumers…

Publication: Business Insider

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16 May, 2013

The Road To Self-Service BI

For years vendors and pundits have heralded the age of self-service business intelligence (BI) thanks to the arrival of the latest generation of BI tools. First, they talked about how dashboard, OLAP and ad-hoc query were going to enable business people to create their own reports; now they…

Publication: Smart Data Collective

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16 May, 2013

How To Keep The Feds From Snooping On Your Cloud Data

A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can’t get to the information — even if the government requests access.

And in recent years there have been a lot of those government requests for access from storage…

Publication: CIO.com

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16 May, 2013

First Look: Google+ Shifts The Focus To Better Photos And Big Data

Almost two years in, Google’s social network hasn’t siphoned much activity off of Facebook. But even if Google+ doesn’t yet have all your friends, it does have one of the world’s most powerful data centers at its disposal. Starting today, the network will start leveraging that…

Publication: The Verge

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