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by Angela Guess John Koetsier of VentureBeat reports, “The appeal of big data has made data scientists a hot item, commanding respect and income worthy of supermodels or football stars. But perhaps a better term would be ‘data artists,’ befitting the artfulness that goes into interpreting and illustrating big datasets. Perhaps these scientists are not the Einsteins...
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By Christine Denney Welcome to the third installment of the “Figure 8” series! In last month’s post, we reviewed essentials 2-4 and discussed guidance for conducting the current state assessment and inventory. With essentials 5-7, we move past the analysis (understanding the “what”) and into building the architecture (the “how”). You might be wondering why self stick...
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by Angela Guess IBM reports that “HMEL, a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, Singapore, has adopted a new IBM analytics-based solution to transform how the company manages its financial and operations data to boost business performance. HMEL has built the 9 MMTPA (million metric tonne...
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by Angela Guess Maria Deutscher of Services Angle writes, “Statistically foreign workers might prove to be one answer to the big data skill gap that is growing increasingly noticeable in the U.S today. The McKinsey Global Institute said that there’s a shortage of 200,000 data scientists in the current job market. That’s a lot...
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by Angela Guess IBM is working with JSC Attyntau Resources in Kazakhstan to “provide a new business analytics system to help the company to improve gold yields and increase the profitability of its operations. The new system will enable the gold producer to centralize and quickly analyze data about its mining operations. It includes...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM has written an article discussing the numerous applications of Big Data to health care. He writes, “Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and hospital administration understand that new types of data analysis are the key to...
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by Angela Guess IBM reports, “SHOP.CA, Canada’s largest online eCommerce marketplace, is using analytics software from IBM’s Smarter Commerce Initiative to help engage increasingly empowered online consumers in a unique shopping experience, and build loyalty and a sense of community. SHOP.CA’s online marketplace features millions of products across 26 categories and billions in multi-merchant inventory. ...
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by Michael Brackett Data management today is a collection of disciplines (plural) that include mathematics, philosophy, logics, sociology, and so on. It has not yet become a formal profession, in spite of what many people declare. Data management professionals cannot self-proclaim that a formal data management profession exists. They must work hard at building...
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by Angela Guess Versant has named Paul McCullugh the new Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. According to the announcement, “Mr. McCullugh brings 20 years of sales and marketing experience to Versant, including a diverse background in complex high performance database and middleware applications, open source products, and cloud services. He has...
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by Angela Guess Warwick Ashford of Computer Weekly reports, “The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against hotel group Wyndham Worldwide and three subsidiaries for claims that it failed to secure customer data. The Wyndham Worldwide hotel group includes a range of brands such as Ramada, Days Inn and Travelodge. The...
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