The Ever-Increasing Importance of Predictive Analytics
The effect that business intelligence and analytics have had on all aspects of the business world can only be described…
3 Reasons Hadoop is Heading to the Cloud
Cloud computing and big data have been vying for the attention of business owners for several years now. Both initiatives…
Naming and Classifying: Text Analysis Vs. Text Analytics
Analysts and marketers do a lot of naming and classifying -- This is a That -- in order to communicate…
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SAP Big Data Chat: The Data Scientist [VIDEO]
Last month, I hosted a “Big Data Hangout” featuring SAP’s Shekhar Iyer, Global VP Analytics & Big Data and David…
Predictive Analytics: The Power and the Gory
More years ago than I care to remember, I took a strong interest in predicting behavior. Besotted by a woman…
Google and Apache Hadoop: A Match Made in the Cloud
To the uninitiated, words like “Google” and “Hadoop” sound like the stuff of a futuristic make-believe world. Being that the…
The Coming Monetization of Big Data
Big data has consistently been one of the hottest trends to dominate the business world for the past few years,…
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Why Big Data Will Power the World [VIDEO]
Big data is not just about harvesting vast amounts of data but more about the different relationships you can start…
Debunking Five Cloud Computing Myths
For the third year in a row, cloud computing is one of the top three technology investments for CIOs. However,…
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The World’s Most Unusual Data Centers [INFOGRAPHIC]
With an ever growing amount of data in the world, that data also needs to be stored and why not…