Data Mine or Data Yours? Info Wars and the Escalating Arms Race
Data matters. It’s the very essence of what we care about. Personal data is not equivalent to a real person—it’s much…
7 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has been in the headlines for a couple years now, but small business owners may assume that a…
IBM Research: “Smart Machines” Preview
IBM Senior Vice President and Research Director Dr. John E. Kelly III and IBM writer Steve Hamm have authored a…
Data Visualization: Drawing Actionable Big Data Insights
“So much data, so little time.” That’s how a lot of companies feel about the explosion of Big Data. After…
Data Scientists Should Be the New Factory Workers
The factory environment is a data scientist’s paradise: both highly multivariate and relatively quantifiable. And the increased use of large-scale…
Union Pacific Railroad Turned to the Industrial Internet to Stay on Track
Union Pacific Railroad, the largest railroad company in the USA, has adopted big data in many aspects of its operations.…
The Dirty (Not so Secret) Secret of IT Budgets
Some business users believe that every year IT is handed a budget, which is then fully used to drive new…
The Personas that Matter the Most in Business Analytics
As a new generation of business professionals embraces a new generation of technology, the line between people and their tools…
Big Data Deployments Strangely Low
It's not a big surprise that big data, business intelligence and an It's not a big surprise that big data, business intelligence…
The Wide Range of Different Big Data Technologies
Many of the latest big data technologies are developed by big data startups from around the world that have found…