Gliding through Traffic with Big Data
A string of needless red lights and another late arrival at work.We’ve all been the victim of too many red…
Cloudera Makes Hadoop a Big Player in Big Data
I had the pleasure of attending Cloudera’s recent analyst summit. Presenters reviewed the work the company has done since its…
How Text Mining Can Help Your Business Dig For Gold
Your customers want to communicate with you. Your partners, employees, potential clients, competitors, press and social media influencers want to…
Technology Makes a Difference for Location Analytics
Our latest benchmark research into the market for location analytics software finds significant demand for location-related technology that can improve…
Is Big Data Under Threat by New Internet Magna Carta?
This year we have seen the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web (WWW) and next year we will see…
Google Flu Trends: Importance of Veracity, the 4th V in Big Data
A lot has been written recently criticizing Goolge’s Flu Trends – a flu tracker service that predicts flu activity based…
Marketing Metrics HR Vendors Will Soon Be Paying a Lot of Attention To
In an excellent Barron’s article from earlier this year titled “It’s Not the Earnings, It’s ‘The Metrics’ That Really Matter,” Tiernan…
SAS Unifies Big Data for Business and IT
Many businesses are close to being overwhelmed by the unceasing growth of data they must process and analyze to find…
How Can Big Data Influence Sports?
Data analytics can be applied to virtually anything from which information is collected, and what better outlet for advanced analytics…