Unlocking the Potential of ‘Big Data’ in the Market Research industry
Companies who wish to unlock the potential of ‘big data’ are eyeing up opportunities in areas such as market research,…
The Role of IT in Business Discovery: Part 3
In this, the 3rd part in the series of posts about the role of IT in Business Discovery (see Part…
Creating Beautiful Maps with R
Spanish R user and solar energy lecturer Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro has written a detailed three-part guide to creating beautiful maps and choropleths…
Intelligence in the Cloud
The Cloud is one of the top priorities for most CIOs. They want to better understand the risk and the…
Predictive Policing with Big Data
Police Departments nationwide have been using data and statistics to drive policing since the 90s in an approach founded by…
Management Education in the Age of Big Data
What if business schools based their entire curriculum on the fundamentals of business analytics? McKinsey estimates that the demand for…
Target, Pregnancy, and Predictive Analytics, Part II
This is part II of my thoughts on the New York Times article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets".
Challenges of Chinese Natural Language Processing – Segmentation
As the Chinese consumer market takes the center stage in the world economy, the rush to adapt business tools for…
The Uncanny Valley of Big Data
Three articles in recent weeks have touched on an important issue related to Big Data and predictive analytics: sometimes, the…