Branding data is tough—and not just because many eyes glaze over when you start to talk about it. But in today’s media marketplace, it wouldn’t be wrong to think of the data world as a spreadsheety version of a gold rush, with everybody scurrying to stake their claim.“At the early stages of anything, most people who are in that thing […]
At the center of the data visualization market is Tableau Software, Inc., a company eager to simplify data consumption for the purpose of making it more accessible to everyday users. As Tableau gears up for its annual conference we look back at its notable developments in the past year, as well as expectations for the upcoming event. One big question […]
If you’re an avid Twitter user, you might have noticed a significant drop in the amount of spam messages and tweets bugging you. That’s because Twitter’s introduced a new anti-spam system called BotMaker that’s helped it to achieve a 40 percent reduction in its key spam metrics.Twitter’s Raghav Jeyaraman describes in a lengthy blog post why fighting Twitter spam is […]
Big data could bring “a second Age of Enlightenment”, according to PwC partner Matthew Tod, an expert in digital analytics.“We’ll understand what is going on in our world much better,” he argues. It will “turn the lights on”.But businesses need to act fast, he says, not just because they risk being left behind but because it may become more difficult […]
Dr. Volker Gülzow, head of IT, Deutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronBy Dr. Volker GülzowWhen it comes to data volumes, there’s Big Data, and then there’s Huge Data.This is our reality at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a leading national research center in Germany. We’ve been storing, processing and managing massive amounts of data before the term Big Data was even coined.PETRA III, the most brilliant […]
How automation at scale can put HP ahead in Big Data services | #HPBigData2014 Cheryl Knight | August 20thREAD MOREBeing able to handle massive amounts of Big Data can help a company keep a step ahead of its competition, and Hewlett-Packard, Co. is hoping to provide the platform to help companies gain the lead. Real-time data in particular can empower […]
If you’re a young, male driver, or you have one in your family, you are no doubt aware of the astronomical price of car insurance.This is obviously because drivers in this category are involved in a higher number of accidents, so it seems fair that they pay more to be on the road, right?But what about those young, male drivers […]
In Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, a data expert does what baseball scouts cannot: predict the future performance of a player with better accuracy. In addition to relying on the instincts of scouts, the Oakland A’s decided to use analytics to predict whether a player would be a top performer, thus gaining notoriety and kicking off an unprecedented winning streak.Ex-New Jersey Attorney […]
Cooper Smith
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The average global internet user spends two and a half hours daily on social media, and information on their activity — gathered under the catch-all ‘big data’ — reveals a great deal about what makes them tick.
Now, social networks are making significant investments in putting this data to work to deliver personalized content, and […]
You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can’t have both. That’s the conclusion that several colleagues and I reach in an article now online at Queue and forthcoming in Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. The short version: many people have called for making science more open and transparent by sharing data and posting data openly. […]
