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Prepare for the Big-Data Labor Shortfall

January 26, 2012 by Rick Sherman
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Where are all the big-data people? A recent front-page article in the Boston Globe raised this very issue. The article, “Mass. firms see riches, jobs in charting oceans of data”, discussed reports on Big Data by the Mass Technology Leadership... [read more]

Big Data Is More than Hadoop

January 25, 2012 by David Menninger
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Hadoop, a well-publicized technology for dealing with big data, gets a lot of attention (including from me), but there are other technologies being used to store and analyze big data. The research data shows an environment that is still evolving. [read more]

Tech Job Cuts at Lowest Level Since 1997: Report

January 25, 2012 by Joe McKendrick
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Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks layoffs and downsizings on a monthly basis, reports that the number of tech job cuts announced by US employers in 2011 plunged to the lowest level ever recorded in tracking going back to 1997. [read more]

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The ‘Big Data’ Buzz – Revolution or Evolution?

January 25, 2012 by Bernard Marr
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In this post, Bernard Marr discusses whether the emergence of big data analytics means a revolution or more an evolution of the way we collect, analyse and use data to inform management decision-making. [read more]

Some Thoughts on Measuring Consumer Marketing’s Affect on the Path to Purchase

January 27, 2012 by Teradata Experts
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Few Consumer Goods companies have complete visibility into the data generated across every agency, promotion, campaign, channel or brand. It’s a data integration and agency-process issue Teradata has worked hard to solve for some of the largest Consumer Goods manufacturers. The lens then focuses quickly on what consumer actions can be captured, measured, and improved upon to increase sales. [read more]

The Cyber Power Index

January 27, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Despite concerns over Chinese and Russian cyber attacks, both countries ranked near the bottom in Legal and Regulatory Framework and Technology Infrastructure, implying difficulty developing and implementing security policy. From the results, technical skills, high educational attainment levels, open trade policies, and an innovative business environment were discovered to be the foundation to cyber power and excelling across categories. [read more]

Forrester’s Take on BI Trends—Plus Collaboration

January 27, 2012 by Erica Driver
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Forrester Research recently published a report titled, “The Future of BI,” (available to Forrester subscribers or for purchase) in which the analyst firm laid its take on the most important BI trends for 2012 and beyond. Consumerization and self-service stole the show.Forrester’s List of Trends for 2012 and BeyondIndividualized BI tools... [read more]

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IT: Get the Emphasis on the Right Word (Hint: It’s not the 'T')

January 26, 2012 by Rob Armstrong
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So how can we leverage all this new capability so the user community can then drive information based actions that are timely, relevant, and profitable? I will explore a few of them here as well as give you some ideas on a best practice that should be an integral part of any new technology assessment and initial rollout to your company. [read more]

Is Sentiment Analysis a Subset of Text Analytics?

January 26, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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When it comes to social media, companies can use customers’ unstructured feedback to analyze their sentiments and feelings because people don’t control their emotions as much when they interact in social environments. That way businesses can try to understand consumers’ real feelings behind the feedback they leave and use it to achieve their goals. [read more]

Analytics is Key to Energy Industry

January 25, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Energy companies in states where deregulation has occurred can use analytics to better understand and target customer needs in a number of ways. For instance, decision makers and data scientists at energy companies can use analytics to better understand how residential, commercial, and industrial customers are using energy and to help tailor rate offers geared to meet their specific needs. [read more]

Social Media Analytics – 5 Featured Sessions at TAW San Francisco

January 25, 2012 by Eric Siegel
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Social Media Analytics at Text Analytics World San Francisco Text Analytics World, March 6-7 in San Francisco features cutting edge social media analytic methods and techniques – Check out these five TAW sessions, plus two more at Predictive Analytics World (colocated): Modeling Collective Mood States Using Social Media Analytics Johan... [read more]

Big Data, Enterprise Data and Discrete Data

January 25, 2012 by Steve Sarsfield
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An organization’s data management maturity plays a role in big and little data. If you’re still managing your customer list in a spreadsheet, it’s probably something you started when your company was fairly young. Now, the uses for the data should be expanded and you are still stuck in the young company’s process. Something that was agile when you were young is inefficient today. [read more]

Text Analytics for Telecommunications - Part 1

January 25, 2012 by Themos Kalafatis
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It is evident that a highly inflected language explodes our feature space and for this reason R can come to the rescue with some success. We can use R for changing several synonyms to one word, removing (Serbian) stop words, removing URLs and performing several other pre-processing steps that are necessary prior to an extensive analysis. [read more]

Maximizing the Business Value of Big Data

January 25, 2012 by Jorge Lopez
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While ELT and hand coding provided organizations with a much needed fix and some temporary relief, these approaches are typically unable to scale in a cost-effective manner. They also can create significant challenges around ongoing maintenance and governance. As a result, IT departments within several companies have initiated projects called “ETL 2.0” to achieve a long-term, sustainable solution to their data integration challenges. [read more]

Social Blog Carnival: Getting the 411 on Social ROI

January 25, 2012 by Brent Leary
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As part of the One on One conversation series I do over at SmallBizTrends.com, I recently talked with Cory Hartlen, a product marketing manager with Radian6. During our discussion Cory mentioned quite a number of things that hit on the topic of social media ROI. [read more]

Looking Back on 2011: BI, Mobility and Collaboration

January 24, 2012 by Erica Driver
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To understand more about spending on technology for information workers, Forrester Research surveyed more than 2,700 IT executives and technology budget decision-makers in the spring of 2011. [read more]

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Cruise Ship Captains and Normal Accidents

January 24, 2012 by Paul Barsch
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Author Charles Perrow reminds us that in systems—whether they are tightly coupled (little to no slack) or loosely coupled (linear interactions with possible delays) there “will be failures”. [read more]

Mass Digitization Threatens the IT Industry

January 24, 2012 by Thu Pham
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Video, music, classified ads, newspapers, magazines, pictures – all forms of media have been dramatically transformed by their digitization. iTunes, Amazon and all of their various devices have enabled a new business model that created fantastic wealth at the expense of old-guard leaders. This digital transformation was an onslaught that... [read more]

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What are Advanced Segments in Google Analytics and Why You Should Use Them

January 23, 2012 by Dominick Frasso
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Google Analytics Advanced Segmentation is a great way to get in-depth analysis on the performance of your website across different channels. This level of data takes you deeper than the generic default level data that Google Analytics provides on your website. [read more]

Collaborative Analytics and the Benefits of Local Language Support

January 23, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Enterprise companies rely on data scientists from a range of geographies and backgrounds. To help keep analytics teams on the same page, it’s useful for analytics team members to use the same analytics tools. This can and should include tools that offer local language support for data scientists who speak Chinese, Russian, Japanese, etc. [read more]

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