Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping
Last Thursday, I attended a webinar that was called Monitoring Humanitarian Crises in the Digital Age: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, and Satellite…
Broadening the Reach of Self-Service BI
The necessity of self-service is obvious once you realize that traditional BI has limited reach within user communities. For example,…
Real-Time Pricing Algorithms – For or Against Us?
In 2012, Cyber Monday sales climbed 30% over the previous year’s results. Indeed, Cyber Monday benefits both online retailers as…
Bigger Than Big Data? Mobile User Expectations
How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff Hasen How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff HasenHipcricket Chief…
The Data Geek’s Guide to Happiness in 2013
When it comes to happiness, why don't we do what we do best as data geeks, collect data on it,…
Decision Automation: How To Augment Predictive Analytics with Human Intelligence
This article examines the perfect combination of automated decisioning with advanced analytics and the human interaction.Let’s start with a simple…
Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics
Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) has existed since the times when data warehousing evolved to help move data from…
IBM Watson Advances a New Category of Cognitive Computing
IBM Watson blends existing and innovative technology into a new approach called cognitive computing. At the simplest operational level it is…
Christmas Tree Analytics
According to research firm IBISWorld, Americans will spend around $3.4 billion buying over 25M Christmas trees this year, and you…
Big Data and the End of Civilization as We Know It
As you may be aware, the world (or civilization, at least) is due to end in a couple of weeks,…
