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23 May, 2013

HR Analytics Spoils Leave Party At NAB

Employees at NAB were saving up their annual leave days and costing the bank a mint. NAB’s people and culture head of consulting decided to put a stop to that with the help of human resources analytics…

Publication: ZDNet

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23 May, 2013

Top 20 Tweeters To Follow For #BigData

The judges have cast their votes for the 20 must-follow tweeters from our #bigdata100 PeerIndex ranked list of big data oriented Twitter accounts. Unsurprisingly, @kdnuggets came out on top…

Publication: Big Data Republic

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23 May, 2013

Big Data Meets Walt Disney’s Magical Approach

Walt Disney is one of the most admired companies in the world and annually, approximately 100 million visitors spend a lot of time in the Walt Disney parks around the world. These visitors could generate a lot of data and that is exactly what Walt Disney aims to achieve…

Publication: Smart Data Collective

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23 May, 2013

Analytics Is Not A Strategy

The tools of analytics have advanced significantly since Michael Lewis’ book, yet the “moneyball” strategy is unchanged.

Analytics involves the tools of data gathering, data management, statistical analysis, data visualization and information systems to deliver better information, more efficiently, to decision makers within an organization…

Publication: All Things D

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23 May, 2013

Report Uncovers Huge Business Opportunities In Healthcare Data Analytics

According to The Institute of Health Technology Transformation report, 80 percent of electronic health data that doctors collect is currently unstructured. The McKinsey Global Institute stated that the U.S. healthcare system could save between $300 billion and $450 billion by using data analytics…

Publication: Health Tech Zone

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23 May, 2013

Ten Key Skills For Landing A Big Data Job

Federal agencies and private sector companies alike are finding big data talent is in short supply. A recent study by the Government Business Council (the research arm of Government Executive Media Group, Nextgov’s parent organization) and Booz Allen Hamilton found that while most federal managers are optimistic about promise…

Publication: Nextgov

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23 May, 2013

Why The Chief Data Officer Is More Vital Than Ever

One role that enterprises are attempting to get a handle on is the Chief Data Officer. Professor and industry adviser Peter Aiken estimates that only about 10 percent of CIOs “know what they’re doing” when it comes to managing data as an asset, and he’s aiming to reframe…

Publication: Information Management

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23 May, 2013

Combating Blood Money With Big Data

In 2009, an estimated $1.6 trillion — 2.7 percent of global gross domestic product — was laundered worldwide, including hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States.

A report released in April by the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control calls for stronger Justice Department action. The most striking…

Publication: Nextgov

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23 May, 2013

Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns…

Publication: WSJ.com

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