The Issue Of Access In A Big Data World
When we hear the phrase ‘big data’ most of us think about the information and insight that can be gleaned from analysing the vast amounts of untapped data pools lying within our businesses. The industry is saturated with opinion about big data analysis in order to draw usable insights and ultimately aid customer retention or enhance business processes. However, although incredibly important, these thoughts overshadow the conversation around management of, and access to, big data. Although storage of information has come under scrutiny, the link to large volumes of data and secure, efficient access remains relatively tentative in many conversations.
Quantifying H(app)iness – How Big Data Is Defining Well-Being
Big Data and Quantified Self are beginning to play a global role in measuring happiness and well-being. The science of happiness, based on subjective well-being and positive psychology, has been getting a boost in the past few years from emerging technology that can measure the data about behavior and emotion. The H(app)athon Project (www.happathon.com) is a free initiative looking to leverage sensor and other data to improve well-being.
Thinking Beyond The Boundaries With Big Data
Big data is now a commonly used term within the business world and many companies are implementing solutions to make the most of the untapped data within their systems. It’s no longer ‘new’ but how businesses are choosing to use this data is changing. Beyond traditional uses of big data there are exciting ways for organisations of all size to better leverage the information gleaned to make more informed decisions and ultimately, run their business better.
Data is wisdom?
The old saying “less is more” is arguably more relevant today than ever before. In an increasingly complex and noisy world, efficiently extracting meaning from the torrent of raw data presented to us every day is critical. One might assume that the more information you have, the better, but too much information can quickly become unwieldy, unless you know how to manage it. This is the Big Data challenge...
Revisiting openness: The Finnish Institute in London launches The Open Book
The Finnish Institute in London is happy to share its newest publication "The Open Book" with Big Data Week attendants. Download a free copy and join the global discussion on open data!
How Can Big Data Help Connectivity And Mobility?
Events around the world are looking this week at what Big Data means, what’s exciting about it and how we can best make use of it. For us at Startupbootcamp, Big Data is deeply correlated with connectivity and mobility - they go hand in hand.
The Big Data Discovery Puzzle
No matter what the industry, forming the intelligent discovery environment required to generate competitive advantage from big data can be extremely tough. Although traditional analytics and methodologies are fairly robust, in the rush to generate insight from big data projects, the introduction of new analytics technologies and previously unfamiliar open source data storage tools like Hadoop will inevitably create a learning curv
Big Data Believer Or Big Data Realist?
Graham Brierton, CTO at contact centre platform leader VoiceSage, comments on a trend recently where suddenly Big Data is the Answer to Everything
It’s very much part of the Zeitgeist to say Big Data is the Answer to Everything. But while Big Data is a genuine phenomenon and will undoubtedly offer businesses enormous benefit, much of the discussion around it seems to be hype-fuelled chatter - and not very well informed chatter either.
The 40% Big Data Non-Adopters
A recent global survey showed that one in four of large corporates worldwide are not planning to engage with Big Data projects due to cost concerns and skill shortages. For Jeff Morris, Vice President of Product Marketing for leading business analytics software specialist and founder of open source BIRT, Actuate Corporation, this is an odd trend