What Data Do the Five Largest Tech Companies Collect? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Big Data brings big privacy issues, and it is wise to understand what data is collected from you when you…
Using Data Science on TripAdvisor Reviews (Part 1)
This will be the first of a series of posts that show the knowledge that may be extracted from TripAdvisor…
Why Budgeting Is “Mission Critical” in Higher Education
You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about how higher education is under pressure to keep tuition costs in…
How Coca-Cola Takes a Refreshing Approach to Big Data
As the world’s largest non-alcoholic beverage company, Coca-Cola generates Petabytes of data from various sources: multi-channel retail data, customer profile…
Testing the San Francisco Open Data Initiative [VIDEO]
San Francisco’s Open Data Initiative allows the government of San Francisco to share open data with its citizens, who can…
Apple and Motorola Re-Visit Old Values in New Ads
Fifty years ago the phrase, “Made in the USA,” had nationalistic and quality-assurance resonance for Americans. Then came the “Global…
Cloudera Leads the Way in Europe [VIDEO]
Interesting findings from a survey by data processing software vendor Syncsort on 300 attendees of two Big Data conferences in Europe:…
Solving the Riddle of Measuring Social Voice
Twitter has seen the analytics light. In a recent move of great importance, but zero fanfare, the bluebird folks have…
Tag, Anyone?
The nature of data is changing. At the moment organizations gather data from many different sources including loyalty cards, machine…
Big Data Accountability (Part 2)
In a previous post I introduced the topic of Big Data Accountability and that there are three different aspects that…
