Hadoop Toolbox: When to Use What
Eight years ago not even Doug Cutting would have thought that the tool which he's naming after his kid's soft toy would…
Big Data in Retail Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]
Here’s a great data visualization on Big Data in retail industry:Source: Monetate Marketing Infographics Here’s a great data visualization on Big…
Data by the Book: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone
Big data, with all of its vastness and mystery – and confusion – is actually a remarkably straightforward concept: store…
PayPal Winning the Mobile Payments and Mobile Data Race
PayPal is leading consumers and merchants into a ‘digital wallet’ universe and extending their lead with announcing partnerships with NCR…
Two Wrongs Don’t Make an Insight
What keeps IT guys up at night? All that bad data their bosses are using to run the business.In case…
Attensity Uses Social Media Technology for Smarter Customer Engagement
When I last wrote about Attensity I classified it as a “pure play” text analytics vendor, but the latest release of its…
What the Launch of Social.com Shows Us
Yesterday Salesforce announced the launch of Social.com – a social advertising solution that brings the power of Radian6 (R6) and…
Valuable Big Data Insights via Nike+ Gamification Platform
Nike turned the most uncomplicated sport in the world, running, into a data-driven social sport that gives users access to…
How Apple’s iWatch Will Push Big Data Analytics
Is the next big innovation from Apple - a watch - going to change the world of big data as…
Metric-Driven Agile for Big Data
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Working in Bing Local Search brings together a…
