Social Data

Big Data Analytics: what do your Likes reveal?

Big Data Analytics allow us to automatically analyze digital records such as our updates, photos and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. But did you know that your 'Likes' on Facebook could expose intimate details about you as well as personality traits you might not want to share with anyone?[read more]

What does a good analytics vendor look like?

Let’s face it: the best way to make your organization more data-driven is to get the best analytics talent within your organization. So what should you look for in your analytics vendor?[read more]

Social Big Data: Twitter data visualization

What happens when you plot billions of geotagged Tweets on a map? You can see the arteries of the world. Check out this cool data visualization of Tweets in Europe. According to creator Miguel Rios, the dots on this chart represent every geotagged Tweet since 2009.[read more]

Acqui-hiring talent

The concept of a growing company short on talent acquiring another company simply to fill those open spots is not a new one. Yahoo acquired 10 small companies prior to Tumblr and within days of the acquisitions, shuttered them and rolled the employees into different divisions of Yahoo.[read more]

Chief Insights Officer? / shutterstock

As the traditional influence of CIOs begins to wane for a number of reasons, how can CIOs regain their past glory? In my opinion, the best way Chief Information Officers can do this is to adopt and grow with changing technology and evolve to become Chief Insights Officer – still a CIO![read more]

Social data on top 4 platforms

The top four social media channels, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+, are all used for different purposes by different people and brands, but how do they use each other to market their own brands? Does Facebook have a Twitter page? Does Google+ have a LinkedIn page?[read more]

How can Big Data deal with social risk?

Corporations are faced with literally millions of potential threat sources given how the social aspect of today’s online world has empowered practically every individual with immediate reach and influence to broadcast their disappointment, displeasure or disgust with a brand.[read more]

So long, Flickr Pro.

I looked at the new Flickr site and, while I commend the Yahoo engineers for bringing it into 2013 to resemble Pinterest, MySpace, and other photo-rich sites, a lot of the simplicity I used to take for granted has been stolen away from me. I wasn't alone.[read more]

Tactical analytics: stay on the right path

From social media sentiment analysis to dynamic product pricing, we’re adopting more and more super-fast micro-decision systems to do what’s good “right now, right there” without much consideration for the cumulative effect over a longer period and a broader scope.[read more]

A tale of two BIs

All modern Information Technologies which are capable of improving the enterprise competitiveness fall in the scope of BI, such as ERP, CRM, Reporting tools, Data Computing, Statistical Analysis, Data Mining, OLAP, and ETL, etc. They can be divided into two categories: Desktop BI and Solution BI.[read more]

Google+ and Big Data

Data analytics and design are being integrated together with the Google+ redesign, but will it be enough for us to add another social network into our lives? Google already has a lot of your data but now they want ALL of your data in whatever form they can get it.[read more]

A Big Data solution

Cloud, social, mobile: all of these technologies are connected through one important commonality, and that is Big Data. By allowing individuals to quickly discover important information through the use of data, organizations are given the power to make smarter data-driven business decisions.[read more]

Big Social Data

From eating and drinking to watching entertainment to reading, just to name a few, the social conversations of consumers often reveal tremendous insight on their interests, activities, likes, dislikes, attitudes and behaviors simply as a byproduct of their ‘off-line’ engagements while engaging online.[read more]

perception gap

Consumers believe Sears is just for tools and electronics; is this the perception Sears wants to portray? What is Kroger doing better than others are? Walmart tweets way more frequently than other brands, and consumers reciprocate. 4 brands, 1 week and 100,000 Tweets: this infographic lays it all out for you.[read more]

Facebook & big data analytics

Facebook has massive data analytics capabilities and it has a lot of data - big data. It has our personal details, our likes, our updates, our pictures and videos. However, my big question here is: are they overstepping the mark by exploiting this (even very personal) data?[read more]