Over the past several years Big Data has been bandied about in boardrooms and tech blogs. Despite the conversations taking place, there has remained an operational ignorance for how the Enterprise can implement effective strategies around how best to capitalize on this new business paradigm. As SiliconANGLE has been reporting over the past several weeks, the fault doesn’t necessarily lay […]
Who Should Attend a Big Data Conference This Year?
February 10, 2014 by Dave Leininger
“I think this would be a good technology conference to attend,” I suggested to the owner of a small company for whom I worked years ago. “Here is why: out of 24 sessions being presented over two days, I can attend the eight that are closely aligned with […]
BI IntelligenceThe world’s largest social networks are storing massive amounts of never-before-analyzed data that could reveal lucrative information about consumers — from how people are influenced, to what triggers an intent to purchase.
However, as much as 90% of that data is “unstructured,” meaning it’s spontaneously generated and not easily captured and classified. But machine learning or artificial intelligence […]
Bitcoin Center NYCAllan Stevo shouts out Bitcoin orders from a makeshift stand at the Bitcoin Center NYC.The floor of the New York Stock Exchange has been pretty quiet for years now, most of the trades having moved onto servers in New Jersey. If you want real pit action, you need not travel very far: One block up Broad Street […]
People walk out of a Lenta supermarket in Moscow. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/ReutersThe Russian hypermarket chain Lenta has announced plans to float in London with a valuation of over $5bn (£3bn).The company, in which the US private equity firm TPG and Russia’s VTB Capital have the biggest stakes, has jumped a queue of British retailers that are set to follow suit […]
When I come across stories that make my blood boil, I generally chose not to blog about them because the last thing I want to do is to generate any more exposure for the stupid misconceptions that they are promoting. But in this case, I can’t help myself. This post “3 Reasons You Can’t Measure Social Marketing ROI” feeds into […]
Hispanic Social Sentiment Lags for Estado de la Unión (SOTU)
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Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la […]
Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built from the ground up to run Hadoop.The newly launched Altiscale Data Cloud is designed specifically for organizations that lack the technical expertise of their web-scale peers but face […]
Serial correlation, sometimes also called autocorrelation, defines how any value or variable relates to itself over a time interval. It is a technical term used by statisticians, mathematicians and engineers. Don’t worry if it doesn’t click right away; by the time we’re through with this tutorial, you’ll not only understand what serial correlation is, but also how it is used […]
Strong fourth quarter initial GDP numbers and Facebook’s earnings results helped benchmarks return to their winning ways. In fact, the S&P 500 scored its biggest jump in more than a month and that has put the index on course to post weekly gains. Facebook’s gains also helped push the technology sector higher and it emerged as one of the top […]
