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Contributor Content | Is Big Data in the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’?
Big Data is showing the first signs of heading for Gartner’s Trough of Disillusionment as a spate of voices, some very well known, like Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile and other prescient books,...
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Contributor Content | What the Lunar Landing Can Teach You About Data...
Cloud computing is not only changing the data connectivity space, but also how we develop applications. So how can IT organizations ensure that applications adapt faster to changing conditions and...
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Contributor Content | No Data Scientist Yet? No Problem
By now I’m sure you’ve heard the term “data scientist.” In fact, it’s being touted as the “sexiest job” of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review. Folks left and right are claiming that data...
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Contributor Content | George Orwell or Jetson? A Crossroads for Big Data on...
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, and unconscious look of...
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Contributor Content | From Code to Cure: Engineering Genomics
We are at the beginning of a pivotal chapter in the history of medicine. Today, we can decode and decipher our DNA at rates that are faster and more accurate than ever. Simultaneously, a movement has...
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Contributor Content | Why Big Data Will Drive the Next Big Boost in Productivity
The Big Data argument speaks quite clearly for itself: the better a brand knows its customers, its interaction with those customers becomes more meaningful, ultimately increasing the likelihood that...
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IBM Sponsored Content | The Growing Need for Big Data Workers: Meeting the...
Big data is just that: big. It is everywhere, part of everything, and grows so rapidly that even large, billion-dollar companies are being awed by its volume. As our world becomes increasingly digital...
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Three Enormous Problems Big Data Tech Solves
I’ll try not to bore you with the description of big data’s volume, velocity and variety. You can find that just about anywhere (and just about everywhere). By now, we get it. But what’s less commonly...
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Leveraging Big Data to Reach Today’s Mobile Consumer
Data from Morgan Stanley indicates that mobile users will surpass desktop users in 2014. In addition, 82 percent of mobile media time is spent via apps. However, eMarketer also reported that when it...
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Cloudchat Recap: Big Data Meets Big Leagues — How Cloud is Transforming Sports
Did you miss Thursday’s #cloudchat? Here’s the recap. View the story “August #cloudchat: Big data in the big leagues–how cloud is transforming sports” on Storify.
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Road to the Future Paved With Data Literacy
Data has influenced a wide range of industries — quantitative analysts on Wall Street, polling in politics, market research – but, historically, data has been one tool among many, and a tool that a...
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Don’t Worry, Big Data Hasn’t Jumped the Shark Yet
It seems Big Data is currently persona non grata. In the last week, a headline in The New York Times asked “Is Big Data an Economic Big Dud?” and, based on some (perhaps mis-interpreted) sentiments in...
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Your Employees Are Telling You What Motivates Them. Why Aren’t You Listening?
Thousands of times a day, your employees broadcast exactly what interests and motivates them. With every post, status update, page view, text, download, pin or tweet, they reveal what’s important to...
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Big Data: Does Size Really Matter?
Big data is becoming one big complex. It is the business world’s newest iteration of “keeping up with the Joneses.” The fervor for the latest and most expensive collection systems, infrastructure, and...
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Big Data: Not Just for Nerds Anymore
Peanut butter and jelly. Peas and carrots. Forest and Jenny. Bert and Ernie. Abbot and Costello. Sports and data? Of course. By now we all have probably heard of Billy Beane and his Moneyball. The main...
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Today’s Data Scientists Are From Venus
Over the past several years, Big Data has emerged as the célèbre of the IT world, generating nearly as many IT challenges as IT headlines. Currently at the peak of inflated expectations, the...
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Transitional Coexistence: Singing an IT Harmony in the Enterprise
When a new kind of technology hits the enterprise, internal IT teams across the world have the same discussion — Do we build it, buy it or keep what we have? Implementing a cutting edge solution,...
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More Data Scientists, or Fewer Complex Big Data Applications?
In Venture Beat recently, Meghan Kelly wrote up an article saying that data scientists, “…may soon become one of the most sought-after people in your industry,” with an accompanying infographic. As...
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Why Lack of Context is Killing Your Mobile App
Mobile was a fairly easy medium to ignore for several years. After all, smartphones were new, and most people still surfed the Internet on a laptop or desktop computer. However, that is no longer true...
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Analytics Eats the World in 2014
As 2013 is quickly coming to a close, I return to Marc Andreessen’s seminal thesis that Software is Eating the World. It amazes me to see how much analytics is the metabolic agent driving this shift....
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