SiSense, a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth — the VC’s arm dedicated to later-stage investments that recently announced a new fund we understand to be totalling over $500 million (in May, its size […]
The ups and downs of Obamacare — from its passage to its rollout and now implementation — have consumed Washington, D.C., and American politics.But for those who run companies — and provide health insurance to more than half of all Americans — not much has fundamentally changed. Health care is still a business disease: U.S. enterprises spend more than $620 […]
Big Data Veracity and the Value of Doubt
by David Lawson | Jun 11, 2014 | Big Data, Cognitive Computing, knowledge, Relationships, Veractiy |
The fourth V of Big Data – Veracity – is not talked about a lot perhaps because it brings up the uncomfortable reality of the inherent uncertainty of data, especially Big Data. The more data sources you […]
Editor’s note: Article originally published on May 19, 2014Today I want to examine the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and stock market returns. The purpose will be to determine if periods of strong economic growth correlate to strong stock market returns. Does looking at the macro economic data help or hinder you as an investor?Let’s look at the data […]
10JunKristen DiCerbo is a research scientist at Pearson, and co-author of Impacts of the Digital Ocean on Education, where she makes the case for the potential of data to transform teaching by using it to decipher how students learn. Responding to a post on The Guardian by professor Diana Laurillard of the University of London, Kristen argues that realising the full […]
The MLB draft is coming up and with any luck I’ll get this posted by Thursday and take advantage of web traffic. I can hope! (ed. note: nope) Anyway, Tuesday on FanGraphs I read a fascinating portrayal of the draft process, laying out the nuts and bolts of how organizations scout for the draft. The piece, written by Tony Blengino (whose essays are rapidly […]
One of the central requirements of Big Data is that you take a data-centric approach to cybersecurity. Well, that seems obvious enough – if your vital data is stored in huge repositories, it makes sense to secure said repositories – but apparently most people don’t get it.In a new paper from Gartner, Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security Focus, the […]
Text Posts Alone Are Seven Times More Likely to Show Negative Sentiment than PicturesSAN FRANCISCO – June 5, 2014 – Chute, a visual-marketing company, which helps brands discover and publish consumer photos and videos, has released results from a study showing how consumer sentiment differs by social media format. The study, which examined almost 6,000 posts and tweets about 30 leading […]
Big Data’s march through the health care industry really seems to be making news this week. Take, for example, this Wired profile of Modernizing Medicine, a company that aggregates data from “knowledge gathered from roughly 3,700 providers and more than 14 million patient visits.” Health care providers can then draw on this data to make better treatment decisions. Powerful search algorithms deliver precisely targeted results.Sounds […]
Big data is all the rage at the moment but when it comes to security it shouldn’t be treated in isolation from the rest of the organization.According to a new report from research specialists Gartner, policies need to take account of all forms of data if security problems are to be avoided.”Businesses have traditionally managed data within structured and unstructured […]
