San Francisco played host to a special mirrored room last month for an impressive illustration of big data. Software giant Microsoft was in town for its SQL Server 2014 launch party, and the carefully choreographed room was the centerpiece of the company’s push towards data analysis. The Infinity Room mixes LED animations, pixel spheres, and a narrative around how a […]
Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says
By Anne L. Kim Posted at 8 a.m. on May 14
A report from the Technology Policy Institute says there’s no evidence that big data harms privacy. “Privacy advocates, scholars and public officials have raised concern over a number of potential privacy threats from big data,” the think tank’s report says. “As of now there is […]
Even as the use of social media as a marketing strategy matures, the measurement of success for companies in that field continues to be muddy.Before social media plans and tactics can be rolled out to give brands a foothold in the social media space, a company must first implement social listening. After all, you need to survey the landscape before […]
SummaryThe stock is selling off based on textbook supply and demand economics. High volume selling is likely to continue over the short term.
Audience metrics grew in key categories, and since the business has high profit margins, the incremental revenue growth adds significant value.
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Big data places enormous demands on storage and in many cases conventional technologies are struggling to keep up.In an effort to deliver improved economics and at the same time enable organizations to access and process any type of data, on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world, IBM has unveiled a portfolio of software defined storage products.Codenamed “Elastic […]
How do we end up in the jobs we end up in? And why did we miss those opportunities we had set our hearts on? If most of us look back, the reality is likely to be as fraught with chance as any other aspect of our biography. Our working lives are essentially fictive constructs, born out of the fantasy […]
By Ted Benson, MIT CSAILAn important problem in the era of data-driven science and business is that skilled professionals like geneticists or economists cannot create and publish high-quality interactive data visualizations without technical assistance. Even simple tasks, such as publishing a dataset for interactive browsing, often require knowledge of computer programming.The usability of creating and publishing high-quality data exploration interfaces […]
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Big data technology isn’t for every company, according to SnapLogic CEO Gaurav Dhillon. But for those in certain industries, it can have major impacts.FORTUNE — If software is eating the world, as described by the prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen in 2011, then big data is supposed to be saving it. Right?Popular use of the term “big data,” which is used to describe technologies that […]
