Using Data to Build Energy Efficient Cities
Ten cities in the United States have signed on to the City Energy Project (CEP), a major initiative to improve the energy…
Big Data, Analytics and Criminals
To a criminal, life must have seemed so much simpler before the advent of big data. Back then, if you…
Smart Meters Kill Wifi, Not People
The Real Smart Meter Threat There is a lot of hype and hysteria about the smart meters the electrical companies…
Big Data Lessons from the NFL Draft
The great myth of Big Data is that it’s defining characteristic is size. In spite of the warnings about Variety…
A Powerful Combination: Big Data and Healthcare
Big Data and healthcare is a powerful combination. The ability to give doctors insights to all data of their patients…
The Most Valuable Asset Any Organization Can Have: Its People [VIDEO]
The BIg Idea Video Series500 Decisions Made Daily. In this episode, we explain that a business isn't made of products or…
Nice AaS: Defining “As-A-Service” and Why the Cloud’s Gone Crazy for Everything-As-A-Service (XaaS)
Check out Part One of this Two-Part Series on the most popular Aas in the business... Check out Part One…
No More Outages: How to Stabilise Your Ecommerce IT Environment
Implementing a standard operating environment is the key to avoiding outages in most ecommerce systems. Implementing a standard operating environment…
4 Ways Big Data Can Drive Your Sales to the Next Level
One of the most well known examples of how Big Data can drive sales is that of Amazon. They have…
Why Big Data Requires the Social Sciences
This is the first in a series of posts that will examine the big data phenomenon from the point of…