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Learning from BigCo’s Attempts to Leverage Data

by Angela Guess Peter Aiken has published a new article titled “Succeeding at Data Management–BigCo Attempts to Leverage Big Data.” The article was published in the Journal of Data and Information Quality, and is free to download here. Aiken writes in the abstract, “In a manner similar to most organizations, BigCompany (BigCo) was determined to […]

MapR Redefines Big Data Landscape with Dedicated Enterprise-Grade Spark Distribution

by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution. This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered to support advanced analytic applications, along with patented innovations in the MapR Platform, […]

Big Data’s Big Liability Issues

by Angela Guess Ryan Garner recently opined in Quartz, “Let’s just say it: In the future, successful data companies will not own any data. The data economy is the engine of growth for all digital businesses. However, the landscape is changing. We are heading for a data crunch. Data has huge economic value but it […]

Don’t Let Bad Data Derail Big Data Projects

by Angela Guess Elbert Hearon writes in Datanami, “Big data means that once minute bad data problems now become magnified as big problems that can cause flaws with the very analytical results that were painted as one of the values of big data. As the proliferation of data continues, it is very important for organizations […]

Is Big Data Overrated?

by Angela Guess Dorie Clark recently wrote in Entrepreneur, “Big Data, and its enormous power to quantify and illuminate phenomena, is all the rage. But author and entrepreneur Martin Lindstrom says it may be overrated. ‘Big Data is about analyzing the past,’ he says, and it’s ‘safe and accepted’ in our society to predict future […]

5 Signs You Don’t Get Big Data

by Angela Guess Bernard Marr recently wrote in Forbes, “I’ll admit it: Big Data is not my favorite term.  It really trivializes and summarizes the trend too far, creating misconceptions and misperceptions of what this incredible shift in our technology, culture and world actually is. Despite the fact that I bill myself as a “big […]