Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?

In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big Hit of 2011.  It's also a wonderful phrase…

Barry Devlin
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ggplot2 for Big Data

(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs today about forthcoming big-data improvements to his R…

DavidMSmith
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Data Mining Interview: Rob Hyndman

I recently discovered Cross Validated, a Q&A platform for statisticians and data miners. With Seth Rogers, Community Developer of Cross…

SandroSaitta
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How to Speak Like a Data Scientist

A recent blog posted in MIT’s Technology Review explores how organizations are drowning in a sea of dat

Brett Stupakevich
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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – last chance for survey

Our Predictive Analytics in the  Cloud survey closes today so this is your last chance to tell us what you…

JamesTaylor
1 Min Read

Spike in the Social Conversation? Is your Social Customer Trying to Tell You Something?

Analyzing social media or enterprise text is not only about monitoring mentions but about understanding the ‘why’ behind a customer’s…

Jennifer Roberts
4 Min Read

How to Become a Data Scientist

Steven Hillion, Vice President of Analytics at EMC Greenplum

Brett Stupakevich
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Decision Management Systems drive the second economy

Cross-posted from International Institute for Analytics There was a great article recently in the McKinsey Quarterly – The Second Economy.…

JamesTaylor
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Consumerization of IT, Well…

This topic has been coming up a lot over the last couple of weeks, and I've just been asked to…

mfauscette
11 Min Read

Evolving Approaches to Cyber Threats

Bob Gourley and HP’s Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security continued to discuss emerging security issues at the HP Protect 2011 conference on…

BobGourley
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