When Ideology Reigns Over Data
Increasingly, the mantra of “let the data speak for themselves” is falling by the wayside and ideology promotion is zooming…
From Data Ownership to Data Usage: How Consumers Will Monetize Their Personal Data
In a world where more data is created than ever before, data ownership is gaining in importance. Not only organisations…
Using Data to Build Energy Efficient Cities
Ten cities in the United States have signed on to the City Energy Project (CEP), a major initiative to improve the energy…
State Secrets Laws Inhibit Open Data
In the United States and much of Western Europe, government data, such as economic indicators, government budgets, and agricultural information,…
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…
How Data Will Make Air Travel Safer
Airlines and air traffic controllers use a lot of information to keep passengers safe, integrating weather readings, physical information about…
It’s Time to Ditch Scarcity Thinking
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” Smaug the magnificent dragon sits on his nearly unlimited hoard of treasure and coins and…
Architecting Big Data Solutions
In this article I would like to outline, at a high level, the overall thought process for "architecting" big data…
6 Simple Steps to a Big Data Strategy
We now live in a world in which the volumes of data are exploding by the second. While some companies…
Facebook’s Big Data: Equal Parts Exciting and Terrifying?
Facebook, the popular social network with over 1.2 billion users world wide, has not just big, but gigantic amounts of…
