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The Future of Big Data: Good, Bad or Ugly?

The Pew Internet Project, in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet…

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The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager

Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great…

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Mok Oh: To Do Data Science, You Need a Team of Specialists

Currently the Chief Scientist at PayPal, Mok Oh came on board when…

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How Data Became Big

In addition to researching A Very Short History of Data Science, I have…

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Facebook’s IPO and the Laws of Big Data

Without using any predictive analytics tools, I confidently predict that Facebook’s IPO…

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Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside

Tim O’Reilly famously declared in 2005: “Data is the next Intel Inside.”…

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The Trouble with Big Data

Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, has issued an important…

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The Evolution of “What is Data Science?”

I’m in the process of researching the origin and evolution of data…

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New Research on Big Data

Two new research reports on big data flesh out its early impact…

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Big Data and the Demise of Analog Retail

The CEO of Best Buy has abruptly stepped down.

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