The Changing Face Of Data: The Convergence Of Technologies, Devices And Apps Is Prodding More Companies To Take Big Data Seriously
In a world where ABC (Analytics, Big Data, Cloud) are converging, the need to manage, monitor and predict business outcomes and market readiness is also changing. And with the wide prevalence of tablets, smart phones and social media, the urgency to mine intelligence from the tons of raw data is prodding more companies and governments to beef up their big data plans.
Forget About Big Data – It’s All About New Data
90% of the world’s data is less than two years old. What does this mean for UK businesses? Regardless of whether you intend to extract information from the data your business collects, how will you handle, store, manage and compute it? And how will the infrastructure behind it cope?
Big Data Week Expands Global Presence to Include Atlanta, Partners with Big Data Analytics Startup Emcien to Drive Citywide Engagement
ATLANTA, GA—Emcien Corp., a pioneer in automatic pattern detection for Big Data, announced today its partnership with Big Data Week, a global effort dedicated to connecting a number of cities including Barcelona, Moscow and Shanghai through locally hosted meetups, events, networking functions, demos, debates, hackathons and more. This partnership ensures that Atlanta-based organizations can take part in the movement by hosting individual functions throughout the city during the week, which takes place on April 22-28, 2013. Local Big Data startup Emcien was selected to drive the message and raise awareness in Atlanta.
The Value in Unstructured Data
Big Data is the biggest trend in IT right now, however the term is loosely thrown around and becoming increasingly ambiguous. Everyone seems to be doing some sort of “Big Data” nowadays, which can cause great confusion among organizations with actual Big Data needs. We at IKANOW focus on unstructured data analytics, and may be a little bias, but believe it is an essential part of any Big Data offering. One question we hear all the time is “what’s the business value in unstructured data?” Occasionally, we also receive raised eyebrows and blank stares when referring to unstructured data. To help answer this question and provide clarity about unstructured data, let’s take a look at the differences between structured and unstructured, and how it all relates to Big Data and the business value.
Getting Creative with Big Data and Google Apps
Big data isn’t just for those who can wrangle Hadoop or wrestle with R. Service interfaces (APIs) make it easy for even the relative novice explorer some creative solutions. Working for an innovation centre I often find the need to quickly glue together service APIs to gain some insight from the data flowing around our sector. More often than not I turn to Google Sheets (Spreadsheets) and Google Apps Script to rapidly develop dashboards I can share with colleagues. It’s reassuring to see I’m not the only one who uses this approach.
#bdw12 Jairam Chandar “Hadoop at DataSift”
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#bdw12 – Check out “Data Stories” – Podcast
DATA STORIES is a bi-weekly podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner. Their first guest on the show is Andy Kirk who... Read More
Big Data – 10 significant visualisation developments
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