Google Flu Trends: Importance of Veracity, the 4th V in Big Data
A lot has been written recently criticizing Goolge’s Flu Trends – a flu tracker service that predicts flu activity based on specific search terms using aggregated Google search data and estimates current flu activity around the world in near real-time. A ...
Changing Role of #CIO: Chief Information to Chief Insights Officer
There was a time not too long ago (late 1970s to be precise) when companies used to have an Electronic Data Processing Department, with EDP Managers to manage data processing function. The EDP Department evolved to become the Management Information System ...
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal was and I said: “To help clients serve their customers better through use of Information Technology and Analytics." Back in mid 1990s, when I was a ...