Big Data
21 May, 2013
Big Data Can Help Retail Bring Everyone ‘Up Close’
Most large-scale businesses operate under two distinct perspectives. An “up-close” perspective, which considers how the business looks at the individual store front level…
Publication: Memeburn
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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…
Publication: NY Times
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22 May, 2013
Finding The Right Sponsor For Your Big Data Project
Finding a sponsor for a big data project and/or strategy is extremely important, as it will help an organisation move into the big data era faster and with fewer problems. As research by Cisco indicated, companies leveraging big data will financially outperform their peers by 20% or more…
Publication: SmartData Collective
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22 May, 2013
4 Keys To Improving Business Intelligence Projects
For a long time, we IT types have installed all kinds of transactional systems. Those systems have been generating piles of transactional data that can provide business insight. This idea becomes even more intriguing when we consider all the non-transactional system data we can now collect from social media…
Publication: CRN
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22 May, 2013
Data Gathered From Deadly Storms Can Help Save Lives
While it may be little consolation to those who lost relatives and homes to the twisters that ravaged central Oklahoma this week, a famed tornado hunter sees one benefit in the devastation: Data collected from the storm could help save lives in the future…
Publication: The Huffington Post
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22 May, 2013
When Big Data Invades Your Home
“Big Data,” as its known today, refers to data sets that are too large to process by standard or traditional means. Using that definition, what makes me, or anyone else think that big data will ever find its way to my house? That’s the perfect question to ask. The…
Publication: ZDNet
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22 May, 2013
Applying Intelligence To Big Data For Security
Certainly there is a lot of data associated with security. Much of that Big Data is stored as events in huge repositories of logs. Even more Big Data can be captured on the network and parsed into events and records of network activity. But is this Big Data in the…
Publication: Forbes
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21 May, 2013
Big Data Tales: Walmart’s Big Data DNA
Walmart is driven by big data and is serious about building social, automated platforms that connect to its customers. By building its own big data tools, the company increases valuable customer information that later on will lead to increasing sales of the right products at the right time…
Publication: Big Data Republic
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21 May, 2013
CEO John Chambers Says Big Data Tech Will One Day Come Running Into Cisco’s Arms
Cisco CEO John Chambers, who leads the world’s largest networking equipment company, is pretty pumped up about the notion of billions of Internet-connected devices, known as The Internet Of Things (IoT…
Publication: Business Insider
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21 May, 2013
3 Ways Recruiters Can Use Big Data to Find the Best Job Candidates
Like much of the language used in recruiting and HR, it’s easy to be intimidated by terms like “big data,” “social API” and “CRM.”
But don’t worry if that futuristic-sounding jargon goes over your head. You can still learn from these new trends and apply these ideas…
Publication: Brazen Life
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21 May, 2013
Big Data Tool Mimics Human Problem Solving Technique
We humans solve problems every day of our lives. In most cases, we base our decisions on past experiences. Now an emerging technology called case-based reasoning strives to emulate that problem-solving strategy…
Publication: InformationWeek
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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…














