Pivotal continues to churn out new, important solutions that are helping companies make better use of big data. This week, we have 2 major announcements that will help Hadoop distributions deal with real-time transactional data more effectively and to provision any kind of big data sets, including data from Hadoop, MPP, flat files or a legacy database. The new solutions […]
by Garth De BlasioThe rapid pace of change in marketing driven by immense digital expansion has led to numerous buzzwords that may or may not be passing fads. One idea that is certainly here to stay is “big data.”As more data is collected from different sources about customer and prospect behavior, marketers have to figure out how to collaboratively […]
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Big data is everywhere, being generated by people using transactional tools, social media and collaboration tools, as well as pouring in from applications, log files and machines. Recognizing its potential to analyze and predict trends, enterprises want at this data. The problem is, there just aren’t enough skilled professionals adept at transforming this data into business insights — and we’re […]
Print PDFEarlier we shared with you the required skill set of a big data scientist, and recently EMC published an infographic about this illustrious job. Despite the growing opportunity, demand for big data scientists is outpacing the supply of talent and will do so for the next five years. EMC did a survey to understand who these big data science […]
Print PDF“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”, the famous quote by Henry Ford. Nowadays, Ford uses big data to find out what their customers want and to develop better cars faster. Developing a product that requires 20.000 – 25.000 different parts to develop, big data seems to be the only way forward […]
Songdo City, Part 1: ‘Nudge’ Paternalism in the Big Data City[Part 1 of the 3-part series on Songdo City, South Korea]The world’s first “smart city” is nearing completion. Called an “aerotropolis” by some, Songdo will be an industry hub for international business travel. A clean-tech Startup City of sustainable urban life. A Korean ‘Big Apple’ imitating the density, structure, and […]
One of the hottest areas of information technology right now is the field of “Big Data”, and closely related “Business Intelligence”. While these concepts don’t get anywhere near as much discussion as some other emerging industries, say 3D Printing (see my article on 3D Printing stocks here) or Medical Marijuana (See my article here), Big Data and Business Intelligence are […]
Print PDFIt is obvious that the large internet companies like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter have many different Big Data solutions. LinkedIn for example employs over 100 data scientists to develop among others the recommendation engine. Twitter developed several open source tools. Also the sentiment analyses or trending topics require a Big Data approach. Facebook’s newest search engine Graph Search combines […]
For National Day of Civic Hacking, Chicago will play host to three separate events. The first is the ChicagoMigraHack, a hackathon focused on the issue of immigration. The second event will be a youth focused hackathon at the Adler Planetarium. And finally, there will be an assortment of different civic hacking activities at Hack for Chicago hosted at the entrepreneurial […]
