Big Data
Articles on Big Data Mangement, Analytics, Best Practices and News
What Really Is Big Data? And Why It Will Change the World
Big Data is THE biggest buzzword around at the moment, and I guess it makes sense to start my new ‘The Big Data Guru’ column with a post that goes back to basics and establishes what big data really is, what is isn’t and why it matters to everyone. One thing is...
When Big Data Meets Tablets
Big Data and mobility are converging offering mobile workers access to real time data via mobile dashboard apps. An interview published in Tech Republic with the Forerunner Group’s managing director Dwight deVera. Big Data and mobility are converging offering...
The Big Data, No Data Paradox
The current premise is that the more data an organization can access and analyze, the greater the insights that can be acted upon – so focus on data, data and more data. This approach loses sight of “NO” Data, though, which if detected can often represent even more...
Dark Data: B2B’s Big Data Challenge
It’s estimated that in 2013, the world will produce an astounding 4 zetabytes (or 4 million petabytes) of new data. But unlike B2C companies, which are pressed to make use of massive quantities of unstructured consumer data, B2B companies face a big data...
Health Care: Big Data’s Next Frontier
Better medical outcomes at lower cost -- these are the goals of modern health care. Data and analytics can play a major role in helping to achieve these objectives by enabling evidence-based decision making in the industry. Alas, with but a few exceptions, that...
What E-Discovery Can Learn from Big Data and Data Science
Like many fast-paced industries, e-discovery seems to create and abandon trends with every news cycle. Observers can find it difficult to stay abreast of the latest terms and technologies as e-discovery remains a highly specialized segment of the technology world. Yet...
Application Developers: Ignore Big Data at Your Own Peril
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that big data is only about analytics for business intelligence. Big data is the fuel, and predictive analytics the engine, that will power the next generation of predictive applications, as I wrote in a prior post (Predictive...
Five Approaches to Extract Value from Big Data
In the age of big data, the world’s most successful companies will be data-driven enterprises. That is to say, data will be hardwired into their decision-making through automated processes that enable them to move with great speed and agility. To reach this level of...
