Big Data and Analytics In Sports: A Game Changer
If there is one area in which big data is literally guaranteed to be a game-changer, it’s sports.Sports have for…
Cloudwashing: Fiction or Reality?
A new term has emerged in the cloud computing blogosphere and it has been aptly named “Cloudwashing.” The term is…
Why UPS Spends More Than $ 1 Billion on Big Data Annually
United Parcel Service (UPS) is the biggest package shipping company in the world. It was founded in 1907 and on…
How to Get Started in the Cloud
Cloud computing has progressed from a niche buzzword to a business essential in recent years. Cloud computing has progressed from a niche…
Is Your Data Quality Boring?
Is this the kind of response you get when you mention to people that you work in Data Quality?!Let’s be…
Dazed and Confused About Big Data
Not every business needs to initiate "big data" analytics, but every company needs to understand more about big data –…
Lifting Up: How Big Data Can Help Eliminate Poverty
Despite the relative prosperity seen around the world over the past few decades, poverty is still an enormous problem. Roughly…
Things Interrupting the Internet of Things
I have written about several aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) in previous posts on this blog (
The Internet of Things Will Lead Us into a New Industrial Revolution [VIDEO]
Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains the importance of the Internet of Things and how it will result in…
The Data Audit Process: The Initial Step in Building Successful Predictive Analytics Solutions
Building predictive analytics solutions is very much in-vogue for most organizations today. Historically, practitioners needed to educate businesses on the…