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Christmas 2011: a Great Example of Smarter Commerce in Action

February 3, 2012 by Brent Leary
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This is a great example of customers understanding what technology can do, and expecting vendors to find ways to leverage it to continuously improve their shopping experience. And improving the experience is crucial to keeping customers satisfied. According to the ForeSee study, satisfaction scores are important because a one-point change in website satisfaction can predict a 14% change in revenues generated on the web. [read more]

Connecting the Dots: Misunderstood Dimensional Models

January 12, 2012 by Rick Sherman
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One of the debates one hears when designing a data warehouse  is that it should be normalized. Specifically, they say to use a third normal form (3NF) or a dimensional model. This debate is often an ideological battle, where people cite Inmon or Kimble to justify their position. At this level, the debate is about theory rather than... [read more]

Is Big Data at Risk of Unleashing Big Brother?

January 5, 2012 by Bill Franks
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Privacy is always a flash point. With the advent of big data, privacy is only going to be even more of a concern. The fact is that many sources of big data contain highly detailed information on what people are doing. [read more]

Gathering Information on a Global Scale

January 5, 2012 by Gina Cerami
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While most internal market intelligence operations monitor a limited set of companies or individuals that are of interest to their organization, FactSet must monitor every source, including web sites, traditional media, government and registries, for every company. [read more]

MDM Goes Beyond the Data Warehouse

December 29, 2011 by Rick Sherman
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Enterprises are awash with data from customers, suppliers, employees and their operational systems. Most enterprises have data warehousing (DW) or business intelligence (BI) programs, which sometimes have been operating for many years. The DW/BI programs frequently do not provide the consistent information needed by the business because... [read more]

Alberto’s Business Analytics Predictions for 2012

December 28, 2011 by Alberto Roldan
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As business analytics projects proved their measurable value within companies, I believe that in 2012 we will continue to see a mathematical increase in the number of companies that use business analytics. My predictions for 2012 are not in order of importance. [read more]

Big Data Analytics - Volume, Variety, Velocity

December 26, 2011 by Sandeep Raut
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"Today, enterprises are exploring big data to discover facts they didn’t know before. This is an important task right now because the recent economic recession forced deep changes into most businesses, especially those that depend on mass consumers." [read more]

How to Use Pivot Tables to Mine Your Data

December 19, 2011 by Jay Arthur
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Here is a detailed example of using Pivot Tables to mine your data. These examples use Excel along with QI Macros for Excel. [read more]

The Horizon of Data Mining

December 17, 2011 by Josue Oteiza
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Today data mining is a tool that is used in different industries in order to be able to solve problems of prediction, classification and segmentation, being very useful for understanding the area studied, but being for the exclusive use of certain departments. Due to the high costs involved in building models, these techniques and tools have become unreachable for some organizations, especially when the world economy is in recession. [read more]

Revenue, Supply & Demand: Effects of the 2011 Hard Drive Shortage

December 15, 2011 by Thu Pham
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The recent hard drive shortage caused by this year’s extreme Thailand floods is said to continue its major impact through 2013, according to market research firm IDC and reported by ComputerWorld.com. The hard drive shortage is being felt around the world as IT vendors, computer system merchants and consumers are all affected. While... [read more]

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Are Data Scientists the Next Masters of the Universe?

December 14, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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With data growth on a fast paced exponential curve, much less the complexity and velocity of multi-structured data, will skill sets to succeed in the future tilt more in favor of the data scientist role? [read more]

Big Data Fights Crime: The FBI’s Next Generation Identification

December 10, 2011 by Alex Olesker
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"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in the Big Data business since 1999 when it launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the world’s largest biometric database on individuals. IAFIS contains over 55 million sets of fingerprints and is used by law enforcement agencies nationwide for criminal investigations and civil background checks." [read more]

Big Data: Smaller is Better

December 9, 2011 by Brett Stupakevich
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"If you’re a data scientist take heed: it’s easier to make sense out of all that data, if you keep your data sample small and manageable." [read more]

Sybase: Big Data Crisis is a Big Lie

December 8, 2011 by Timo Elliott
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"Why “big lie?” Because, as the article points with lots of historical examples, there’s always been a “crisis” in data storage, but as data volumes have risen technology has always evolved to deal with it, and that’s as true today as it has been in the past..." [read more]

Big Data Governance

December 7, 2011 by Jill Dyché
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"Often clients explain that they need to treat transaction data differently than they need to treat, say, customer master data. Fewer business rules, more history, that kind of thing. That’s when we start the work of classifying different data domains according to varying business policies" [read more]

Addressing Slowly Changing Dimensions with Teradata v13

December 7, 2011 by Venkata Bodapati
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Best Practices, period datatype, SLD, Slowly Changing Dims, Teradata, v13 [read more]