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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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by Angela Guess Paul Thorley of CIO.com reports, “Capgemini’s 2012 global survey on big data, commissioned by the Economic Intelligence Unit, covered 607 executives around the world (25 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region), and found that the majority of respondents (54 per cent) say that management decisions based purely on intuition or experience...
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by Angela Guess Max Nisen of Business Insider reports, “Increasingly, recruiters and managers are going beyond the resume and evaluations and turning to Big Data. That means a lot of old practices for evaluating people and stereotypes about who succeeds are falling apart. Google, known for rigor in evaluating people, has devalued SAT scores and...
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by Angela Guess Alex Williams of TechCrunch reports, “The National Security Agency (NSA) cloud is about big data and creating unicorns. And it all started when some geeks stole two servers. It makes no sense, according to conventional thinking, but these are unconventional times, and the cloud that NSA built had to be thought...
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by Angela Guess Scott Sigmund Gartner of USA Today writes, “Having grown up in Atlanta, I remember the shock and fear sparked by the explosion in Centennial Park at the 1996 Olympics, which was followed by public frustration as the criminal investigation seemed to stumble and flail. Many could not understand how a bombing...
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by Angela Guess Bernhard Warner of Business Week reports, “Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative of all criminal enterprises. According to recent research (PDF) from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 20.9 million people have been pushed into forced labor, creating a booming $32 billion illicit trade stretching from Laos...
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by Angela Guess Barb Darrow of GigaOM reports, “When Tableau Software’s IPO actually happens, it could validate — or poke a hole in — the hype bubbling up around data visualization, a market segment some experts predict will hit $51 billion within three years. Tuesday, Seattle-based Tableau filed for an IPO with an initial “placeholder” value of up to...
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by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “For big sellers of computer technology to business that are looking to stay relevant, there’s no friend quite like Big Data. Things like cloud computing and mobile technologies are changes in the ways that computing is done. That makes them a threat to...
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by Angela Guess Jordan Novet of GigaOM reports, “Investors continue to bet on databases that can handle large swaths and wide varieties of data. The latest proof point: Deep Information Sciences on Tuesday said it has $10 million in new Series A funding to fuel what it calls a high-performing transactional and analytic database. Funding sources...
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by Angela Guess Merrill Douglas of Government Technology reports, “Cheaper storage and more powerful analytic tools are making big data an increasingly viable concept for the public sector. Some police departments, for example, already mine high-volume, high-variety, high-velocity data sources to support predictive policing. Public officials also hope to deploy big data in public...
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