How to Use Strategies to Get Your Business Out of Trouble
Sometimes no matter how hard you try, problems can occur in your business that leaves you needing to think of solutions to keep it afloat. It might be that there has been a slowdown in sales, or perhaps a shortage ...
Data analytics: A Popular New Field for Business Students
Data analytics is a relatively new field but it’s one that is taking the business world by storm, thanks to the power it holds to extract profitable customer insights and organize information in a streamlined and cost-efficient way. There are ...
How Big Data is Changing Law Enforcement
Violent crime is down in the U.S. It’s been going down since the 1970s.
“Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 48% between 1993 and 2016,” according to Pew Research. “Using the BJS data, the rate fell 74% during ...
4 Long-term Benefits Businesses Enjoy with Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics is quickly transitioning to being omnipresent, given how policy-makers and marketers alike have discovered the magic of historic data that is sourced from within. From being able to shorten the time taken to track cybercrime, to actually limiting ...
Projections of mortality and causes of death, 2015 and 2030
This infographic displays data from the World Health Organization’s “Projections of mortality and causes of death, 2015 and 2030”. The report details all deaths in 2015 by cause and makes predictions for 2030, giving an impression of how global health ...
How to Expand into Global Markets
Breaking into international markets isn’t easy. From the largest of corporations to the smallest of .coms, getting to know your global audiences times take, research, and respect. As no two cultures are alike, what may be a resounding success in ...
Technology to make your sales team more efficient
2022 is going to see technology become more important than ever before for sales and marketing. As new software and more streamlined digital approaches allow for more efficient lead generation and conversion into sales, those companies that are not up ...
Big Data and the Role of Intuition
Many people have asked me over the years about whether intuition has a role in the analytics and data-driven organization. I have always reassured them that there are plenty of places where intuition is still relevant. For example, a hypothesis ...
Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
Tape has been around since the dawn of electronic computers and is still used for many types of long-term storage, but it hasn’t played ...
Strategy and Application Are Both Key with Big Data
Anyone who spends time sifting through industry publications – regarding just about any major sector – can't go too long without stumbling upon some content regarding big data. The intensity of the laser-focused attention on big data has reached a ...