Do you use Siri on your iPhone, Amazon Echo or the automated voice response system to check your account balances? Have you seen the Nationwide commercial “Impersonal” that shows a customer speaking into his smartphone microphone the word “representative” to be connected to a customer service representative. The automated system does not recognize his request. […]
8 Big Data Trends to Watch For
by Angela Guess Tom Phelan, Chief Architect of BlueData, recently wrote in InsideBigData, “Over the next year, a growing number of customers will realize the vast business benefits of Big Data and will deploy Big Data solutions across their organization. Technical innovations, the rise of BDaaS, a shifting approach to data locality, platform convergence and […]
7 Reasons Big Data Projects Fail
by Angela Guess Prakash Kini recently wrote in Tech2, “Every business worth its multi-million-dollar tagline wants to understand Big Data Analytics and leverage it. What I have realised is that it takes not only skill but finesse as well to understand and appreciate Big Data in all its beauty and derive true and timely business […]
Democratizing Data for Small Businesses
by Angela Guess Tom Krazit of Structure recently wrote in VentureBeat, “The cycles that accompany advances in computing are fairly predictable. Technology starts off in a lab setting understood by only a brilliant few, then moves down to an informed and passionate early-adopter community, finally making its way to the mainstream once the kinks have […]
Using Big Data to Improve Diversity in Your Company
by Angela Guess Bonnie Marcus recently wrote in Forbes, “Although the headlines focus our attention on the lack of diversity in business, especially in tech companies, many organizations are diligently working to create more inclusive cultures and they are using Big Data to help them. You only need to look as far the Diversity Inc […]
The Benefits of a Hadoop Distribution
by Angela Guess David Loshin recently wrote in Search Data Management, “Many companies are struggling to manage the massive amounts of data they collect. Whereas in the past they may have used a data warehouse platform, such conventional architectures can fall short for dealing with data originating from numerous internal and external sources and often […]
Data Education Programs at Florida Polytechnic University
Florida Polytechnic University (FPU) strives to be nationally, and internationally, respected as a college that offers not only engineering and technological programs, but also interdisciplinary course programs within the STEM fields (STEM is an abbreviation that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and it will be discussed in further depth later in this article.) […]
Big Data, Health Coverage, and Privacy
by Angela Guess Rachel Emma Silverman reports in The Wall Street Journal, “Employee wellness firms and insurers are working with companies to mine data about the prescription drugs workers use, how they shop and even whether they vote, to predict their individual health needs and recommend treatments. Trying to stem rising health-care costs, some companies, […]
Spark is Catching Up to Hadoop
by Angela Guess Sooraj Shah reports in Computing, “Hadoop and Spark are leading the way as the primary big data processing platforms for organisations in the UK, according to research from Computing. More than 500 people who work in IT responded to a nationwide online quantitative study among companies that have 100 or more employees […]
Paths, Patterns, and Lakes: The Shapes of Data to Come
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data doesn’t exist outside your engagement with it. Or, rather, it may physically exist, but it’s little more than a shapeless mass of potential insights until you attempt to extract something useful from it. Drilling for actionable intelligence can take either of two approaches: query for it or […]