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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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The Key to Data Science: Asking the Right Questions

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November 26, 2012
The Key to Data Science: Asking the Right Questions

by Angela Guess Gil Press of Forbes reports, “In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore. InformationWeek reported on the gathering of nearly three dozen data scientists from academia and business at the Chief Data Scientist Summit in Chicago.  The sexiest part of...
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Getting a Grip on Big Data

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November 14, 2012
Getting a Grip on Big Data

by Angela Guess Zac Unger has written an article in The Atlantic regarding the struggle to get a hold on Big Data. He writes, “By the standards of a decade ago, each one of us probably owns two or three supercomputers. And with all that raw power comes the ability to gather massive amounts...
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Facebook Open Sources Corona

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November 13, 2012
Facebook Open Sources Corona

by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, “Facebook is at it again, building more software to make Hadoop a better way to do big data at web scale. Its latest creation, which the company has also open sourced, is called Corona and aims to make Hadoop more efficient, more scalable and more available by...
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Obama’s Data Crunchers

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November 9, 2012
Obama’s Data Crunchers

by Angela Guess Michael Scherer of Time Swampland reports, “In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away the single demographic group most likely to hand...
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Affordable Big Data Tools for Small Business

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November 6, 2012
Affordable Big Data Tools for Small Business

by Angela Guess Elizabeth Woyke of Inc.com recently shared low-cost tools that small businesses can use to capitalize on Big Data. She writes, “Thanks to affordable storage rates and intelligent software, companies now have access to a staggering amount of data about their customers, operations, and markets. This information, and the industry that has...
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60% of Ad Campaigns Utilize Viewer Data

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November 1, 2012
60% of Ad Campaigns Utilize Viewer Data

by Angela Guess eXelate reports, “The modeling of custom data is ushering data 2.0 in online advertising as agencies, marketers and ad platforms are seeing that modeled, custom data is the best performing data according to research conducted by eXelate and Digiday. To conduct this research survey, eXelate, the leading data and analytics engine...
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Why MDM Still Matters

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October 31, 2012
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by Christine Denney With all the hype around new technologies, like Hadoop, it feels like the excitement of Master Data Management is disappearing like candy on Halloween.  Could it be that MDM is really yesterday’s news?  Something that was a passing fad and is no longer relevant?  Hardly.  The need for the discipline of...
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AutoGrid: Tackling the Smart Grid Problem

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October 30, 2012
AutoGrid: Tackling the Smart Grid Problem

by Angela Guess Jeff St. John of Green Tech Media reports, “The smart grid presents an interesting problem for the world of big data, and particularly the field of unstructured data. Where traditional data management requires its data to be formalized and regimented, unstructured data systems take their data as-is, so to speak, from the...
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Using Big Data to Cash in on Warrants

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October 30, 2012
Using Big Data to Cash in on Warrants

by Angela Guess Alex Olesker of CTO Vision reports, “Traffic citations are critical for funding police departments, courts, and municipalities. Unpaid citations or missed court appearances result in warrants and additional fees, but finding or arresting fugitives and collecting unpaid fines is difficult as well as time and manpower intensive. As a result, the...
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