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Further adventures in data mining, Or welcome to my Lear Jet lifestyle

Posted April 11, 2013 - 5:05 pm

Data miners like Acxiom know a lot about you -- or at least they think they do. We may soon find out exactly how much.
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Big cities deserve big databases -- and these places have 'em

Posted April 1, 2013 - 3:11 pm

Want to know how the sewer lines run in Philadelphia? Well, in case you change your mind, there's a database for that.
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Big Data: Not just for baseball anymore

Posted March 21, 2013 - 11:56 am

Basketball- and soccer and hockey and even mixed martial arts - are catching up to baseball in the use of Big Data and analytics
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March Madness databases for your research and viewing pleasure

Posted March 4, 2013 - 10:28 am

The annual NCAA men's basketball tournament -- known as March Madness -- is almost upon us. There are several databases of past results and video highlights available as the first tip off approaches.
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The CIA knows when you're hitting the gym

Posted February 11, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Raytheon's RIOT software makes it easy for spooks to follow your trail across Facebook, Foursquare, and other social networks. Paranoid yet?
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Making music recommendations with care

Posted January 29, 2013 - 12:23 pm

The Echo Nest serves up music recommendations for a number of popular music services, like Spotify and Rdio. Here’s how they do it
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SkyTap invites users to dip a toe into big data

Posted January 16, 2013 - 10:00 am

Customers can try out a 50-node Cloudera Hadoop cluster for free
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Making big data smaller

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:49 pm

MIT researchers develop a new approach to working with big data: reduce it to a size that can be managed and analyzed with conventional tools
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You too can be the Human Face of Big Data

Posted October 4, 2012 - 4:28 pm

A new project from Rick Smolan's Against All Odds Productions seeks to amass huge amounts of information from mobile device users to compile a global portrait of the human race.
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Big data, big problems -- and, maybe, a solution

Posted October 4, 2012 - 10:48 am

The era of big data is here. But better search tools can make it more useful for organizations and less risky for the rest of us.
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Are we becoming Information Obese?

Posted September 17, 2012 - 2:47 pm

Author argues Information Overload not the issue, but rather the types of data we consume daily.
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Can Big Data solve the Olympics' Twitter problem?

Posted July 31, 2012 - 12:35 pm

The Olympics are showcasing the thrill of victory and the agony of the tweet.
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Big Data bringing down big bucks from venture capitalists

Posted July 26, 2012 - 11:32 am

Venture capitalists have poured more than $1 billion into Big Data companies over the past year, with nearly half of that coming in the second quarter.
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Can Big Data defeat Big Money in politics?

Posted June 15, 2012 - 2:42 pm

Money rules politics, but the emergence of data analysis in the campaign process could eventually level the playing field for outgunned candidates.
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BrandPost: Out of Africa: Analytics for a better world

Posted April 19, 2012 - 8:00 am

Analytics is just one more tool for policymakers and authorities to respond to a crisis. However, unlike other technologies, analytics delivers precise information to those who need it most, when they need.
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BrandPost: Global net capacity passes tablet test

Posted April 17, 2012 - 8:00 am

Tablets are mighty big data users. According to a recent Cisco report, the average tablet handles 3.4x the amount of data as a smartphone, 517 Mbytes per month v. 150 Mbytes per month. Given the staggering growth in the number of 4G LTE-ready tablets hitting the market in the months ahead, the potential spikes in data loads on mobile networks likely will be notable. Despite the growth, the networks haven't buckled yet.
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BrandPost: In praise of the CDO

Posted April 5, 2012 - 8:00 am

It's time to invest in a chief data officer. Not only will they champion data as a strategic business asset, and a driver of revenue, they can also eliminate data turf wars in the enterprise.
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BrandPost: Is your IT Team ready for operational business intelligence?

Posted April 3, 2012 - 8:00 am

Don't get carried away by the potential benefits of operational business intelligence (OBI) at the risk of taking down your business operations. The benefits are huge, but get experienced designers to build and deploy your OBI app.
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BrandPost: Bettor analytics; Better democracy

Posted March 29, 2012 - 8:00 am

Analytics permeate life as we know it -- from NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and big Hollywood movies such as Moneyball to the US Presidential elections.
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How InfoChimps plans to fill the gap in the big data market

Posted March 19, 2012 - 9:03 am

InfoChimps has lots of strategic data to sell, but its true ambition is in helping companies manage and understand their own growing Big Data sets.
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Using Big Data to analyze NBA shooting

Posted March 12, 2012 - 3:09 pm

An assistant professor at Michigan State University has mapped five years of National Basketball League scoring using Big Data.
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Encouraging users to embrace big business data

Posted December 12, 2011 - 9:00 am

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on encouraging users to embrace big business data. Add your opinion and advice.
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IT stats in handy video format

Posted November 29, 2011 - 2:21 pm

A lot of enterprise IT vendors are using the term "Big Data" these days, much in the way they used the term "cloud" a few years ago, as the "next big thing" for IT. This video shows a ton of stats that will prove them right.
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Big Data gets a venture fund of its own

Posted November 8, 2011 - 11:58 am

Venture firm Accel Partners is placing a $100 million bet on the future of Big Data.
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Wave of Big Data could swamp corporate IT

Posted March 10, 2011 - 2:59 pm

Big Data requires more than just lots of storage. Data sets that big break every app they run through, bog down nets and servers and raise IT's Excedrin bills.
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