Embracing Chaos: Big Data Could Define A New Steady State for IT
In his new book, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan, calls “antifragile”…
The Nature of Big Data and the Skills of Data Scientists
The job title Data Scientist was invented by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher when they tried to name people in…
The Real Value of Big Data
HADOOP FOR BIG DATA HADOOP FOR BIG DATAAround 80% of data from “big data” is unstructured. With this massive quantity…
Big Data Trees with Hadoop HDFS
Last month's release of Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 added the capability to fit decision and regresson trees on large data…
Data Warehouse “as a Service” – A Good Pick for Mid-Sized Companies
Plenty of mid-sized businesses don’t have the time, talent, or investment dollars to manage a data warehouse environment, much less…
A Visualization of NYC’s Frantic Transit Patterns Over 24…
A Visualization of NYC’s Frantic Transit Patterns Over 24 Hours A Visualization of NYC’s Frantic Transit Patterns Over 24 HoursUsing…
TDWI Boston Dec 6 – Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders +
ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS IN THE BOSTON AREA Dear Boston BI/DW and Analytics Professionals, ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND…
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Key Supporting Technologies
I recently started a series of blog posts on what CEOs (and for that matter, all senior corporate executives) need…
5 Reasons “Data Scientists” are Sexy
In the age of information,new data is generated every day. These data come from an overwhelming number of data collection…
Big Data and Analytics – Suggestions to Approach
There has always been an opportunity to create big data. There have also always been opportunities for prediction based analytics…
