5 Myths and Truths About Big Data
"Big data" has become a catchall term for the vast amount of information generated by our digital lifestyles, and the analytics techniques for dealing with it all to improve marketing, products, and business intelligence. It's become very fashionable to decry ...
Pictures Make Sense of Big Data
Most people have trouble recalling strings of numbers that are longer than their phone numbers. So how do we begin to comprehend a hundred rows of data, let alone a thousand or a million or a billion rows?
That's the dilemma ...
The Big Data Conversation-Cartoon
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Confused About Big Data? Here Are 5 Things You Need To Do
It’s a funny line, but it seems positively quaint now. It’s hard to imagine young entrepreneurs these days hoping to find their fortune in resource extraction. The days of wildcat wells have been replaced by an industry of geologists and ...
Big data skills will lead to big IT jobs
How big is big data? Scratch the surface and the figures are quite astonishing. A study at the end of last year by research group IDC predicts the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes in size – that’s 45 trillion ...
IT firms widen base with big data
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda. Most IT services companies are enhancing their capabilities, either by creating platforms to process ...
IBM expands work on big data governance
IBM wants to help IT managers apply company policies to their big data analysis projects.
The company will be introducing new products and features to help organizations manage their new big data systems with the same rigor that they manage other ...
SAP to buy KXEN to widen appeal of big data analytics
Enterprise software giant SAP says it's buying predictive-analytics firm KXEN to increase use of its own big-data analysis tools among ordinary business staff by adding more automation.
The planned acquisition for an undisclosed sum will allow SAP to absorb KXEN's "powerful ...
NSA’s big data efforts need transparency, privacy
Recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive data collection programs illustrates the need for a new privacy debate about the implications of big data, some privacy advocates said Tuesday.
The increasing uses of big data in all kinds of ...
Big data can lead to effective business process reformation
If there is an oft-cited and "classic" example of big data use, it's the story of an enterprise that capitalizes on parsing and analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data about its customers from the Internet and other data sources that formerly ...