Metascale Presents a FREE 1-day Hadoop Seminar
Interested in learning Hadoop, but didn’t have the money for classes? MetaScale (@BigDataMadeEasy) wants to help make Big Data more accessible for the Chicagoland data... Read More
The State of Illinois Presents: Budgeting for Results and Paying for Success in State Government
llinois is a leader among US states in implementing across-the-board performance budgeting–a combination of strategic planning, performance management, and program-based budgeting. In 2012 and 2013,... Read More
BellaDati Presents: Data Discovery for Business Users
We hear it from everywhere: “To do business decisions effectively, you have to become data driven company”. In the past that generally meant large investments... Read More
Mather Lifeways Presents: The Promise of Personal Fitness Trackers to Promote Workforce Wellness
Personal fitness trackers offer individuals an easy way to track wellness related behaviors and receive personalized feedback on these behaviors, and research has shown that... Read More
Ken Gleason Presents: Business Models for the Data Economy
You’re sitting on a pile of interesting data. How do you transform that into money? It’s easy to focus on the contents of the data... Read More
Server Central Presents: Big Data. The Tools That Work.
Over the past ten years, numerous solutions have been developed to deal with the limitations of leading relational databases. It’s not always easy to determine... Read More
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: How Narrative Science is Helping Make Google Analytics Easier to Understand
Powered by Narrative Science’s proprietary artificial intelligence platform, Quill™, Quill Engage analyzes Google Analytics data and creates easy-to-understand reports, written in plain English, which are automatically generated on a weekly and monthly basis.
How Morningstar Turns Datapoints into Analytics for Financial Research
From its inception in Chicago in 1984, Morningstar’s mission has been to create great products that help investors reach their financial goals. It all starts... Read More
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: A Practical Look at Self-tracking, Wearable Technology, and the Quantified Self
At his May 8, 2014 talk at Big Data Week, Eugene Granovsky will discuss at what are the best devices, best values, and discuss if technology can actually help us change ourselves