Big Data

CIOs predict new world of IT / shutterstock

Wondering about the form IT will take over the next few years is only natural. According to Forrester Research analyst John McCarthy, his firm's North America CIO Forum gave several hints about the direction IT is taking. These indications could point to the future of BI development.[read more]

Big Data vs. Proactive Analytics

With all the hype about the SAS Visual Analytics product, what is the plan for the SAS BI/EBI? During the SAS Global Forum 2013 opening session, Jim Davis pointed out that SAS had been selected as the leader in strategy and current product offering with the Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions.[read more]

Greg Bell, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab operates the fastest science network in the world, connecting all science labs in the United States. In March 2013, the Energy Sciences Network transferred a staggering 15.5 Petabytes across the network. Here is a video featuring Greg Bell, a computational scientist at Berkeley Lab.[read more]

Cash flows and outlays / shutterstock

IT leaders often express dismay at the process involved in not only forecasting for CAPEX needs, but then stepping through arduous internal CAPEX budget approvals. What’s all the fuss with CAPEX, and why is it so difficult to obtain?[read more]

Data modeling / shutterstock

Data modeling is a critical part of the development of any information system. It enforces certain rules on the information – such as ensuring that customer identifiers are never duplicated, that no account exists without a customer to own it, and that all the information about a customer has been filled in.[read more]

Video interview on perils of Big Data

Under a top secret court issue, the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers have been stored and analyzed by the NSA. Is Verizon the only company that has to give the data or are other companies doing the same? Check out this ReutersTV video to learn more about it.[read more]

Big Data road to success

Big Data is complex. The technologies in Big Data are rapidly maturing, but are still in many ways in an adolescent phase. With all the hype around big data, it is easy to expect Hadoop to do anything and everything. However, the road to success with Hadoop is full of both opportunities and obstacles.[read more]

Where does insight come from? / image source

Neuroscientist Dr. Mark Beeman at Northwestern University is using puzzles and brain imaging to understand how insight works. His team have discovered that when an insight occurs different areas of our brains are active than when we reason analytically.[read more]

What is Big Data?

While everyone is talking about Big Data there are still a lot of misunderstandings about the term and what it really means. I would like to use this article to put a stake in the ground and define in simple terms what 'big data' is, and hope that with everyone's help we can create a complete definition.[read more]

Big Data infographic

Big Data continues to spark excitement, but most businesses are still searching for a way to get value from it. It is often analyzed in isolation from other meaningful sources of information and has been the exclusive domain of scientists. What's required to make more informed strategic decisions using Big Data?[read more]

Jeff Kelley on Apple and Big Data analytics

Apple’s streaming music service, iRadio, doesn’t seem to be a Big Data story per se, yet, but Jeff Kelley, Wikibon Principal Research Contributor, explains the opportunities Apple has with big data analytics and how it can improve the customer experience with big data.[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]

Semantic web: coming soon?

The semantic web, or web 3.0, is often quoted as the next phase of the Internet. It will enable us to easily share and re-use data across application, community and enterprise boundaries. The question is, however, whether big data and its technologies can spur the development of the semantic web.[read more]

Big Data is dawning / shutterstock

The Big Data age is dawning. Just like every major emerging opportunity that presents an unprecedented competitive advantage across sectors, we might not know the ultimate outcome with this journey at this stage. But everyone wants to know: who will race to the finish line and come out on top?[read more]

Big Data techniques

Recent trends have contributed to Big Data's growth -- namely, volume, velocity, and variety. Today, only a small percentage of data in the digital universe is being analyzed. But there is plenty more to come. How will Big Data make its presence felt in the near future?[read more]