It’s Time for a New Definition of Big Data
Two words seemingly on every technologist’s lips are “big data”. The Wikipedia definition for big data is: “In information technology,…
Passwords are the Weakest Link in Enterprise IT Security
Organizations are spending millions of dollars to beef up their data, application and network security, but still keep overlooking one…
The Data Analytics of St. Patrick’s Day
Tomorrow, almost half of Americans will don green shirts to avoid being pinched, seek out some
The Anachronism Machine: The Language of Downton Abbey
I've recently become hooked on the TV series Downton Abbey. I'm not usually one for costume dramas, but the mix…
Moving BI off the Mainframe
When IT professionals use the acronym "MF" in the near future, they may no longer be referring to "Mainframe" as…
Social Media Monitoring – Analyzing the Unexpected Results of Social Conversations
The impact of social media on our lives, and on our businesses has been remarkable. The full extent of how…
R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials
At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline analyst and R user Jeffrey Breen gave a step-by-step…
On Text Analytics vs Machine Translation
I've made an interesting observation recently while talking to people about Thinkudo Enlighten. It regards the misunderstanding between Text Analytics…
Making Love with Data: Avinash Kaushik’s Strata 2012 Keynote
Just watch the presentation, which stole the show at Strata 2012. The written word cannot do justice to Avinash’s passion…
Social Media Analytics Tools Need Better SEO-Impact Reporting
Radian6 and other monitoring platforms need to improve their reporting of the SEO impact / ROI of social media engagement.
