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Taking Big Data Analytics to the Movies

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November 29, 2012
Taking Big Data Analytics to the Movies

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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Cyber Monday Sales Hit All-Time High

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November 28, 2012
Cyber Monday Sales Hit All-Time High

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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Analyzing the NFL’s Big Data

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November 27, 2012
Analyzing the NFL’s Big Data

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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Taming Big Data with Predictive Analytics

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November 21, 2012
Taming Big Data with Predictive Analytics

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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Finding Twitter’s ‘Heartbeat’ with Big Data

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November 15, 2012
Finding Twitter’s ‘Heartbeat’ with Big Data

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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Venture Capital Turning to Data Analytics for Wise Investments

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November 15, 2012
Venture Capital Turning to Data Analytics for Wise Investments

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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Every Tweet Available to Search, Analyze & Compare

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September 24, 2012
Every Tweet Available to Search, Analyze & Compare

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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Rationalizing Data Management: Parables, Metaphors and the Power of Analogy

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September 14, 2012
Rod MacPherson

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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Predicting Customer Behavior with Big Data

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September 10, 2012
Predicting Customer Behavior with Big Data

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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Bringing Data Analytics to the Soccer Field

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September 6, 2012
Bringing Data Analytics to the Soccer Field

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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