Social Media: The Unmined FrontierIBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every day. To put this into perspective, social media alone generates more information in a short period of time than existed in the entire world just several generations ago. Popular sites like Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, Twitter, and Pinterest create massive quantities of data that—if translated […]
The Big Players in Big DataThere is a good deal of buzz around Big Data—hardly a week goes by without a new startup or business preaching the virtues of mining massive tracts of information. Understandably, many have trouble seeing beyond the hype, but nowhere are the benefits of Big Data more tangible than in the healthcare sector.IBM predicts a 20% […]
Big Data is the latest buzzword, and as such everybody is using it to their convenience. This has inevitably created some confusion. In this blog post we will try to clear it up.Big data is about two things: large sets of typically unstructured data and some relatively new techniques to deal with this kind of data. To get a good […]
Blueprint Health’s Demo Day: Big Data, Pill Poppin’, and the “R” Word | PandoDaily
Nathaniel Mott
Nathaniel Mott is a staff writer for PandoDaily, covering startups and technology from New York.
The Week in Review
Sunday That queasy feeling when a Web rally starts losing steam
Monday Oh, for fuck’s sake: Microsoft bans users from Xbox Live for “excessive profanity”Looking to help parents bridge the digital and […]
Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch | PandoDaily
Erin Griffith
Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in Venture Capital Journal, BBC.com, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets […]
New VC Firm Data Collective Launches to Invest in Big Data with a Big Partnership | PandoDaily
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She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and […]
