The Big Data Meme: 5 Scenarios for IT
In the New York Times, Steve Lohr surveys the rise of big data as a term and as a marketing tool,…
NYPD and Microsoft Create a Next Generation Law Enforcement Big Data Solution
With an emphasis on surveillance, evidence, and reporting, law enforcement is an extremely data-intensive field and the New York City…
The Benefits of Multivariate Testing Data For Your Online Business
There's no doubt that the competition on marketing nowadays have soared up to a high new level.This is also the…
Analyzing Olympic Success by Country with Data Visualization
National pride: Historically, the most powerful of motivating and unifying forces. Throughout time, and across enumerate societies, populaces have strived…
Numbers Everyone Should Know
Some of you have seen me build simple models to do a reality-check on architecture (see here, for example). Here…
An Analysis of the R-help Mailing List
Even though forums and question-and-answer services like StackOverflow are emerging as the place to find crowdsourced technical help when using…
Answers to the Most Frequently Asked PAW Questions
Frequently Asked Questions About PAW BostonYou asked for it, you got it. All the FAQs regarding Predictive Analytics World Boston's…
Government Big Data Solutions Award 2012
As a reader of CTOvision.com you are aware of the interesting situation we face with data today: The amount of…
Cliodynamics and Cycles of Violence in the U.S. [Infographic]
After watching this lecture on the Decline of the West it is no surprise that some see conflict as the logical outcome. …
Olympics Sentiment on Facebook: Positive Thoughts Only Please!
Those of us who do social media research know that the kinds of opinions you see in Facebook are often…