What is R? A New Video on the History, Community and Applications of R [VIDEO]
We meet a lot of R users on our travels, and something we often hear from them is that while…
The Viability of Big Data [INFOGRAPHIC]
The three V’s (Velocity, Volume and Variety) are known for most of the visitors on this platform to describe big…
Big Data and Your Body
A couple of weeks ago we posted about the datafication of everything, with a few examples of what can be…
4 Benefits for the Public Sector when Governments Start Using Big Data
Government services, or the public sector, are known for creating large volumes of data. Big data thus provides plenty opportunities…
The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection
The recent leaks about the NSA’s use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and…
A Visualization of the World’s Largest Data Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade,…
CRM Software: Does Visualization Matter?
It may be difficult to register, but traditional CRM solutions have been around for 15-20 years (Siebel Systems was founded…
5 Steps to Setting your Big Data Goals
We all have goals, or at least should. We all have goals, or at least should. I’m reminded of a…
What Could Immigration Reform Mean for Analytics?
Immigration reform has been on the lips of almost every political commentator in the past few weeks. The topic is…
Encrypting Data for Data Breach Prevention
The State of California released a report on 2012 data breaches that found 1.4 million residents would have had their…
