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Dylan's Desk: Why don't you understand big data? | VentureBeat …

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]]>Sign up for our weekly newsletters, and you’ll get the latest insights from our Dylan’s Desk and DeanBeat columns before they’re published on VentureBeat.Two days at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference this week have convinced me that “big data” is real and potentially transformative — but, […]

May 22, 2014 ByDylan Tweney , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Dylan's Desk: Why don't you understand big data? | VentureBeat … read more

Actually, Every Company Is a Big Data Company | TechCrunch

Every day companies collect data about their customers and industries, simply as an artifact of the act conducting business. As I listened to a panel on Big Data yesterday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Mass., I had an epiphany: every company is a Big Data company, it’s just that some get it and some don’t.There is a […]

May 22, 2014 ByRon Miller , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Actually, Every Company Is a Big Data Company | TechCrunch read more

Big Data needs Big Model « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference …

Big Data needs Big Model
Posted by Andrew on 22 May 2014, 9:29 amGary Marcus and Ernest Davis wrote this useful news article on the promise and limitations of “big data.”And let me add this related point:Big data are typically not random samples, hence the need for “big model” to map from sample to population. Here’s an example (with Wei Wang, […]

May 22, 2014 ByAndrew , , , , , , , Comments Off on Big Data needs Big Model « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference … read more

Researchers automate privacy compliance for big data systems

Web services companies, such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather. But ensuring that millions of lines of code in their systems operate in ways consistent with privacy promises is labor-intensive and difficult. A team from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research, however, has shown these compliance checks can be […]

May 21, 2014 Byunknown , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Researchers automate privacy compliance for big data systems read more

Western Union uses big data to stop wire transfer fraud – VentureBeat

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]]>Big data is coming to the rescue in stopping fraud in wire transfers, according to Western Union’s chief information officer.David Thompson, CIO and executive vice president of global operations and technology, said in a fireside chat at VentureBeat’s DataBeat 2014 conference that the company has to tap massive databases to sort through customer information and figure out the […]

May 21, 2014 ByDean Takahashi , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Western Union uses big data to stop wire transfer fraud – VentureBeat read more

The prescription for popularity: big data analytics offer a cure for TV …

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]]>After months of anticipation, many fans of the HBO hit series “Game of Thrones” encountered problems viewing the season premiere. Because of the overwhelming number of people tuning in simultaneously to watch the show on HBO GO, the system was unable to serve all the requests, leaving hundreds of thousands of subscribers stranded and unable to watch their […]

May 21, 2014 ByBen Parker Guavus , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on The prescription for popularity: big data analytics offer a cure for TV … read more

Advertising, telecommunications, financial services, & health care …

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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — The Hadoop open-source big data software is great at predicting things, and the more data it has to work with, the better the predictions, Charles Zedlewski, Cloudera’s vice president of products, said today at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference.It follows that the industries that rely the most on the ability to predict will be the first to […]

May 21, 2014 ByMark Sullivan , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Advertising, telecommunications, financial services, & health care … read more

Big data can help you get more creative, too | VentureBeat | Big Data …

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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — More and more companies are finding themselves boosting their revenues or cutting costs by analyzing data. But that’s not all, folks. Big data tools can also help you think more creatively and spot genuine innovation.At least that can be true in the advertising business. The idea is to weed out the cliches and present people […]

May 21, 2014 ByJordan Novet , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Big data can help you get more creative, too | VentureBeat | Big Data … read more

Three ways big data is helping companies make more money …

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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — One of the ways big data can help companies is by providing more information on who the best sales leads are — and helping salespeople connect with those leads.At VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference today, several companies talked about how exactly they are optimizing their sales efforts through the use of data.Demandforce and InsideSales.com are both focus […]

May 21, 2014 ByEric Blattberg Kia Kokalitcheva Jordan Novet , , , , , , , Comments Off on Three ways big data is helping companies make more money … read more

Looker brings big data sets to your dashboard | VentureBeat | Big …

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]]>Big data software outfit Looker has launched a new data-exploration platform — a way to visualize and sort massive amounts of big data.The Santa Cruz, Calif.-based company, which specializes in big data analytics for enterprise, said its product will allow analysts to manipulate and explore big data sets with ease.Like New Relic? Well, yes. Sure. More on that later.Weeding through relevant […]

May 20, 2014 ByRichard Byrne Reilly , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Looker brings big data sets to your dashboard | VentureBeat | Big … read more