Text Analytics

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Data variety stands out from the three Vs of big data from the report of the big data survey conducted by NewVantage Partners in 2012. One of the survey results shows companies focusing more on data variety instead of data volume both now and in the next three years.[read more]

What's your data story? 

My colleagues and I had the opportunity to represent Attivio at the recent Tableau 8 Roadshow as a partner vendor. Unlike some BI events I have experienced over a number of years, the Tableau 8 Roadshow attendees were very much user-based rather than IT-focused.[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]

Tom Anderson

Here's a Q and A with Tom Anderson, a pioneer in defining and promoting Next Generation Market Research (NGMR). NGMR derives insights from the ensemble of sources via the application of advanced analytical methods including data mining and text analytics.[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]

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Promises, promises! Text analytics literature is full of them. Gain valuable insights! Know your customer! Harness the power of Big Data! The problem is that knowing something about your customer isn’t the same as having the ability to turn that information into cold hard cash.[read more]

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Attensity's newest version of Respond uses natural language-based analysis to derive insights from any form of text-based data and among other results can produce analyses of customer sentiment, hot issues, trends and key metrics. The product supports a form of closed-loop performance management.[read more]

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It’s a buyer’s market when it comes to top IT talent. The Society for Human Resource Management released survey results last year that confirmed what we already know: the high tech sector is finding it significantly harder to find the qualified workers they need.[read more]

Word Cloud is an important visualization technique in social media dashboards. In a glance, the stakeholder can see what their customers are talking about on social media. You can divide the positive and negative terms by using different color codes in the word cloud.[read more]

Big data analytics give us unprecedented power to leverage the ever-increasing volumes of data. Now combine this with robotic technology and you could see 'big data enabled robots' challenging us for almost any of our jobs - including knowledge worker jobs![read more]

My project has the aim to gather, provide and represent knowledge in a different way. Through the API provided by Twitter, I downloaded the last 200 tweets containing the hashtag #textanalytics. I processed the tweets and here are the results.[read more]

It's no coincidence that interest in Sherlock Holmes is rising alongside today's rapidly accelerating, proliferating sources of information: databases, documents/text, Big Data, social media, web and more.[read more]

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Person of Interest is a broadcast television show on CBS where a “machine” predicts a person most likely to die within 24-48 hours. Then, it’s up to a mercenary and a data scientist to find that person and help them escape their fate. What technology components could be part of such a project? And can you help discover more?[read more]

"This year I would like to do something different and address trends in the business analytics industry that, in my opinion, will affect all industries in the next 1-3 years. The purpose of these predictions is to provide some guidance so that the companies we represent today make informed decisions in the area of analytics that could affect their profitability and revenues in the future:"[read more]

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What is commonly referred to as “log files” is a set of machine or user logged text data, containing information about the behavior of an application or a device. These log files come in various formats and have the truth about how a product or software is being used.[read more]