Global Big Data Week: Celebrating Data Instead of Cursing it
While data is growing at a ridiculous pace, the combination of technologies, people and process can reign in the bits and bytes and bake the yummy big data pie we are all longing to get out hands on. Consider Big Data Week the test kitchen!
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.
Ad Tech and Real Time Bidding Dev Meetup with Spotify & Datacratic
Join Datacratic & Spotify for a developer & engineering meetup to talk about big data real time bidding solutions using the RTBkit and Ad Tech... 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
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: How Big Data Ensures the Right Person Gets the Right Message at the Right Time
James O’Hara of Extended Data Solutions will present “The Role of Big Data in the Creation and Delivery of Variable Video Messaging”
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: The New Big Data Choice–Enterprise Data Hub vs. Legacy Data Warehouse
Dr. Phil Shelley of Newton Park Partners will discuss how to establish an Enterprise Data Hub and how to move from legacy to noSQL, Hadoop and other new analytics tools; bringing real-time and near real-time analytics with new approaches to data management.
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: Loyola University Wants to Help Businesses Understand How to Interpret their Data
The Center for Risk Management at Loyola Quinlan's School of Business is holding a half-day symposium titled “Translating Big Data into Business Decisions.” The goal of the event is to highlight how the value of Big Data is not derived solely from statistics, but from an established business process that requires sound managerial judgment to guide the analytics.
Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: Two Brothers Share a Passion for Data, and a Model for Change
Kamal and Siraj Tahir are two brothers who share a passion for data. Each is a data professional in their respective countries; Kamal in Chicago, IL and Siraj in London, England. Both are presenting during Big Data Week in Chicago 2014.
But they’re doing it with a twist. Their two-part presentation is called: “The Big Data Revolution is Expensive. Re-evolving Your Data is Not. Here’s Why.” Kamal is presenting Part 1 from Chicago at 10 am (CST) on May 6, 2013. Siraj will be joined by Kamal at 10 am (CST) on May 8, 2014 to deliver Part 2 from London.
Grains of data from the Sahara
Co-founder of Big Data Week, Ande Gregson, will be one of the many competitors joining the annual gathering in Morocco in the Sahara desert for the Marathon des Sables in April 2014: a six-day, 250k self sufficient ultra marathon, which is the equivalent of six regular marathons, considered to be the toughest foot race on Earth.