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Big Data

Two More Big Data Vs: Viability & Value

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May 7, 2013
Two More Big Data Vs: Viability & Value

by Angela Guess Neil Biehn of Wired recently opined that “viability” and “value” should be added to the existing “Vs” of Big Data (volume, variety, and velocity). He writes, “The era of Big Data is not ‘coming soon.’ It’s here today and it has brought both painful changes and unprecedented opportunity to businesses in...
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Grappling with Poor Data Governance at USPS

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May 7, 2013
Grappling with Poor Data Governance at USPS

by Angela Guess Justin Kern of Information Management reports, “The United States Postal Service has struggled through modernization and declining revenue in public for years, but behind the scenes has been dealing with numerous data governance issues that require a full overhaul of its organization-wide data program, according to a new federal audit. A...
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Netflix Relies on NoSQL

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May 6, 2013
Netflix Relies on NoSQL

by Angela Guess Andrew Lampitt of InfoWorld reports, “Netflix is the big Kahuna of a Web media businesses, with 33 million subscribers in more than 40 countries. As Netflix’s “watch now” streaming service has grown, the company has had to rethink its data and storage strategies to cope with ballooning workloads managed in the...
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Little Data Gives Big Data More Power

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May 6, 2013
Little Data Gives Big Data More Power

by Angela Guess Mark Bonchek of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “You may not know this, but Big Data has a little brother. And together, Big and Little Data are far more powerful than Big Data alone. Big Data is what organizations know about people — be they customers, citizens, employees, or voters....
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Big Data Only as Good as its Machine Learning

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May 6, 2013
Big Data Only as Good as its Machine Learning

by Angela Guess Haowen Chan and Robin Morris of GigaOM recently wrote, “Expectations surrounding the future of  big data range from the just huge to absolutely enormous – a reflection perhaps of both its real inherent potential and all the massive hype. Certainly though there is no dispute that companies can reap big benefits from...
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Big Data Creating New Jobs

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May 3, 2013
Big Data Creating New Jobs

by Angela Guess Adam Belz of Phys.org reports, “Kossi Gavi drives to class on Sunday afternoons to learn retail software, and the reason is simple. People who wield computers to analyze large amounts of digital information are in high demand, and Gavi is learning a program that chain stores worldwide use to run their...
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Unlocking Big Data for the Masses

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May 3, 2013
Unlocking Big Data for the Masses

by Angela Guess Mare Lucas of Wired recently wrote, “Close behind ‘Big Data’ as one of the most utilized enterprise technology terms today is ‘Data Scientist.’ Many postulate that the explosion in Big Data will usher in an insatiable demand for data scientists able to slice and dice data to guide more informed decision...
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Not Just Data, But a Story

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May 2, 2013
Not Just Data, But a Story

by Angela Guess Kristian J. Hammond of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But let’s be very clear: There is a huge distinction to be made between ‘evidence’ and ‘data.’...
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Making the World Happier with Big Data

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May 2, 2013
Making the World Happier with Big Data

by Angela Guess Dylan Love of SFGate reports, “Sure, big data technology can read every tweet ever tweeted. It can search and organize boundless volumes of books. It can even help keep track of sports statistics that were previously unrecordable. But now it can make the world a happier place. John C. Havens, founder of the H(app)athon...
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Big Data Goes to Hollywood

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April 30, 2013
Big Data Goes to Hollywood

by Angela Guess Saswato Das of SAP recently wrote for Forbes, “Are you ready for Big Data at the big screen? It’s true. Hollywood has discovered Big Data’s talents to determine how to distribute and promote movies. Advertisements viewers see before a movie is screened, and how that movie will be distributed later through...
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