This video was recorded at the Insight Innovation eXchange North America 2014 The market research industry is one that changes rapidly and rewards innovation. Here, Michalis Michael gives his opinion on the Insight Innovation eXchange conference, the need for redesigning social listening platforms for consumer insights managers, and the nature of insights. Click here for…This video was recorded at the […]
A really Big poster “Do You Know Big Data” includes: What it is, Leading tools, What is a Data Scientist, What questions should we ask of databases, Visual techniques, Statistical algorithms, Privacy, and more. By Bob Gourley, June 2014.This poster was created by analysts at Altamira.If you are an analyst, enterprise architect, CIO, CTO, CISO, CFO or even […]
Namecoin vs Bitcoin has been falling since the middle of the month, with barely a single bull candle since then. Will the trend continue? Let’s take a closer look at the current NMC/BTC Daily chart below (click to expand): I’ve performed the Fibonacci study from the low on the 13th of April at 0.00390, until the latest […]
In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google’s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search […]
By David Maier, Portland State UniversityIf you are reading this blog, then you’ve already heard of the Three V’s of Big Data (Volume, Velocity and Variety). While the V’s are a way to characterize Big Data, I’ve been thinking about what enables new applications of Big Data. Why is a certain application appearing now, rather than […]
Want to make money from a tree? You’ll probably need to cut it down. Live near a salmon or tuna fishery? Send out the boats and fishing nets for your livelihood.We know intuitively that there’s a value to managing wildlife, forests, water and other environmental resources more sustainably. But the trouble is that most economic assets don’t give individuals or […]
Want to make money from a tree? You’ll probably need to cut it down. Live near a salmon or tuna fishery? Send out the boats and fishing nets for your livelihood.We know intuitively that there’s a value to managing wildlife, forests, water and other environmental resources more sustainably. But the trouble is that most economic assets don’t give individuals or […]
Big Data, as the name implies, relates to very large sets of data collected through free or commercial services on the internet.
This massive amount of data arises from sensors, posts to social networking sites, digital […]
“Big data is a coming wave of ‘green gold,’” says Nick Eisenberger of Pure Energy Partners.”Information technology will be the most powerful tool to address resource challenges in our lifetime.”Eisenberger was speaking at the Markle Foundation offices in New York, where Agrion, which bills itself as the global network for energy, cleantech and corporate sustainability, convened an impressive roundtable to […]
Hammered by weak economic data in Asia, South American turmoil and a stream of weak earnings reports from blue chips like IBM (IBM) and McDonalds (MCD), the S&P 500 (^GSPC) is down sharply for the weak and off more than 1% in 2014. The drop wouldn’t even be worth mentioning if not for the fact that it’s been well over […]
