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Big Data, Unstructured Information Analysis is More Than Sentiment.

February 6, 2012 by Luca Scagliarini
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Unstructured information is a significant part of the Big Data phenomena but automatic sentiment analysis is less than the tip of the iceberg for how to strategically use Big Data. [read more]

Big Data Analytics a Key Enabler for Social CRM – Airlines Case Study

February 3, 2012 by Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.
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Here’s a simple yet very effective example of using analytics for understanding consumer attitudes towards airlines in real time. In this study, Jeffrey Breen has used the R programming language to analyze consumer sentiments about major U.S. airlines expressed on Twitter. [read more]

Analytic Applications are Built by Data Scientists

February 2, 2012 by David Smith
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Ventana Research analyst David Menninger was on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. In a post on the Ventana research blog, he offers his perspectives on the contest, noting that R, as a statistical package, includes many algorithms for predictive analytics, including regression, clustering, classification,... [read more]

Technology Terminology: What’s in a Name?

February 1, 2012 by David Menninger
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Having spent a large portion of my career developing and marketing software products, I am probably biased, but I see value in broad, easily understood – even if imprecise – terms. Such terms are inclusive rather than exclusive, and that allows more vendors to participate in the markets, prompting more competition, more debate and ultimately better products and more variety of products. [read more]

Cloudera Day in DC

January 30, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many successful open... [read more]

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 Council (MTLC) and McKinsey Global Institute regarding the role Massachusetts plays as a hot bed... [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]

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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]

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]

As Chief Yahoo Resigns, Can Big Data Save Stumbling Company?

January 18, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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...in much the same way retailers do to figure out where to locate their stores and how they affect consumer spending. Dignan says Yahoo’s biggest asset is data and if Thompson can harness that data, Yahoo might be able to save itself and create value for its shareholders without having to go private, break up or sell out. [read more]

Digital Reasoning’s Synthesys

January 18, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Solutions exist to better deliver documents via search and indexing, but with Synthesys, Digital Reasoning tries a different approach by automatically pulling facts, entities, relationships, and associated terms from structured and unstructured data so analysts don’t need to read all of the documents themselves. [read more]

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Big Data - Quantity vs Quality: Don’t confuse lots of data with good data

January 17, 2012 by Rob Armstrong
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The problem is rumblings that some people think that just getting into the big data game will solve their woes, and that is not the case. Many companies do not even have a handle on the “small data” (if I can coin a term here). [read more]

Big Data Redraws the IT Landscape

January 17, 2012 by Gil Press
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The dominant IT players in 2020 will be the masters of big data analytics and may come from the ranks of current IT buyers. [read more]

Applying Big Data to 2011 Holiday Shopping Information

January 16, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Thanks to the use of analytics, retailers have become much more adept at identifying the degree to which they can discount products and still achieve certain profit margins. Analytics can also help retailers look more closely at correlations between discounting certain items and the cross-sell opportunities these might create (e.g. if we offer 30% off this set of children’s coats, what’s the likelihood that shoppers will also purchase hats, scarves, and/or gloves that are priced at X?). [read more]

Big Data, Big Mistakes?

January 16, 2012 by Barry Devlin
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My worry is that there seems to be a growing belief in the somehow magical properties of big data and a corresponding deification of those on the leading edge of working with big data and predictive analytics. What's going on? [read more]

The Promise and Challenge of Using Big Data to Address World Problems

January 9, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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...we’re blogging about additional options for people across the globe to use data and tools to learn about and contribute to a variety of quality of life improvements. [read more]