What Changes Will Big Data Analytics Bring?
It’s prediction time again. With all of the certainty that many outlets are predicting for 2014, we decided to look…
The Role of Standards in Predictive Analytics: A Series
I am working on a paper, for publication in early 2014, on the role of standards such as R, Hadoop…
Transforming HR Recruitment Practices with Big Data
Staffing the right candidate for a job opening is a daunting task. HR personnel typically spend anywhere between a few…
Companies Struggle to Engage with Customers Digitally
If you stop to compare communication preferences of the past to those of today, you can’t fail to notice some…
Perfect Information Doesn’t Equal Perfect Predictions
Many organizations attempt to achieve “data nirvana” by having 100% complete information for any given business decision. In the customer…
Music App Predicting the 2014 Top Artists with Big Data
15 million song identifications per day on the song finding app, Shazam, has provided the Big Data needed to predict…
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Picture this scenario: you’re responsible for protecting the data of numerous business users, who create that data on multiple devices…
Be Wary of the Science of Hiring
Like it or not, “people analytics” are here to stay. But that doesn’t mean companies should put all their eggs…
The Winning Formula to Being a Kaggle Data Scientist
Is there a formula to be a data science "guru"? If so, what does it include? Is the most significant…
Five Preconditions to Adhere to When Developing a Big Data Strategy
There is a good chance that your organisations will not exist anymore in 10-15 years from now, if you do…
