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by Angela Guess A new article out of IBM reports, “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 continued to infiltrate the Twitterverse during Thanksgiving weekend, with competition from Box Office leaders Skyfall and the newly released, Rise of the Guardians – according to the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab and the IBM Film Forecaster,...
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by Angela Guess According to a new article out of IBM, “Holiday shoppers turned Cyber Monday into the biggest spending day ever with online sales growing 30.3 percent over the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM. With an increase in online sales across multiple channels, the digital consumer took center...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, “When it comes to using data to determine how to build a team or manage a game, the National Football League appears years behind its professional sports brethren such as Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. But perhaps the increasing popularity of machine learning...
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by Angela Guess Adrian Bridgewater of Sys-Con Media recently wrote, “Big Data is everywhere. Predictive analytics and real time in-memory computing isn’t everywhere. This truth (if we can accept it to be so) represents something of an imbalance. As a subset of data mining, predictive analytics driven by in-memory computing efficiencies now has an...
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by Angela Guess Rachel King of CNET reports, “Needless to say, there’s a lot of emotions and expressed on Twitter every day, but it feels virtually impossible to navigate through all of them to extract a general consensus on most topics. However, computing giant SGI thinks it may have found a way to pinpoint...
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by Angela Guess Christina Farr of Venture Beat reports, “A Moneyball-style revolution is taking place in venture capital. Just as the renegade general manager of the Oakland A’s flouted assumptions about baseball and replaced gut feelings and outdated statistics with more effective quantitative analysis, a new breed of venture capital firms are throwing out their...
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by Angela Guess Jolie O’Dell of VentureBeat reports that Gnip has launched Historical PowerTrack for Twitter, a product “which will give developers the ability to search, find, analyze, and compare all the tweets ever written, even ones written before the developer in question started scraping Twitter. It’s the same level of access the Library of...
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by Rod MacPherson Like many of you reading this post, I frequently find myself explaining to those around me what is implied by “data management” and why it is so important. While it’s easy for the layperson to understand data in the context of how it is entered into applications and how it is reported...
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by Angela Guess Jeffrey F. Rayport of the Harvard Business Review has written an article about using Big Data to predict customer behavior. He writes, “‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’ So said Yogi Berra, baseball great and amateur philosopher. Sensible (and amusing) as it sounds, his dictum no longer rings...
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by Angela Guess Jason Turbow of Wired reports, “In early January, on the type of sun-splashed day that draws northerners to Florida each winter, some of the nation’s best collegiate soccer players gathered in Fort Lauderdale for a shot at the pros. They ran through a series of scrimmages as part of Major League...
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