NTEN CEO Amy Sample Ward on Big Data in the Non-Profit Sector
Amy Sample Ward is the CEO of NTEN. NTEN describes itself as “Where the Nonprofit Technology Community Meets” with this stated mission: “NTEN aspires to more NTEN CEO Amy Sample Ward on Big Data in the...
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Vincent Granville tells it like it is. Books, certificates and graduate degrees in data science are spreading like mushrooms after the rain. Unfortunately, many are more Data Science Training: Emergent...
View ArticleBig Data: Hype, Histrionics or Heavy Duty Insight? Four Big Firm Answers.
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View ArticleHow Big Data Can Transform Consumer Finance
To invoke the memory of a familiar 80′s E.F. Hutton ad, when Douglas Merrill of ZestFinance speaks of finance, we should listen. (You might want more How Big Data Can Transform Consumer Finance is a...
View ArticleInterview with Kate Vitasek: the Vested® business model
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View ArticleInterview with Matthew Bishop from GetElastic.com about Big Data and Ecommerce
Can you explain the category “experience management software” for those not working in the Elastic Path space? The concept of experience management is to provide more Interview with Matthew Bishop from...
View ArticleActually, It’s More than Actuarials: Big Data for Insurance
Are you the sort who chronically forgets to lock your doors, exceeds the speed limit, fails to change your smoke alarm batteries, leaves your FitBit more Actually, It’s More than Actuarials: Big Data...
View ArticleInterview with Syncsort’s Mark Muncy: The Data Warehouse is Alive and Kicking
Practitioners familiar with Syncsort products have a unique perspective on the health of data warehouses, and we’d like to get to that. But first, what more Interview with Syncsort’s Mark Muncy: The...
View ArticleInterview with Syncsort’s Mark Muncy: Did Big Data Kill the SQL Star?
In Part 1 of our interview, Mark Muncy, Syncsort’s manager of Technical Product Marketing spoke of the raw data layer, or “lake.” About Hadoop, Muncy explained more Interview with Syncsort’s Mark...
View ArticlePlunk into Splunk: Machine-Generated Data is Meant to be Ingested
At a presentation earlier this year, an Amazon executive asked a technical audience to speculate as to the largest database that Amazon Web Services (AWS) more Plunk into Splunk: Machine-Generated Data...
View ArticleFrom Store to Big Data Storage: Interview with George Shaw of RetailNext on...
Big data tends to be widely discussed in IT circles, whereas uptake elsewhere has been more gradual. Compared to other sectors, how nuanced is an more From Store to Big Data Storage: Interview with...
View ArticleTime for Temporal Big Data
“When did Doris arrive in Los Angeles?” Before answering, you might want to consider who or what is doing the asking. If you’re based in more Time for Temporal Big Data is a post from the Syncsort...
View ArticleRegional Data Centers: Also on Big Data’s Front Lines
To better understand issues facing data center operators, who might be thought of as Big Data’s front line, we spoke to David Carter, Chief Technical more Regional Data Centers: Also on Big Data’s...
View ArticleInterview with Mark Muncy of Syncsort: A Peek Inside the Apache Hadoop Big...
In Part I of our interview, Mark Muncy spoke of the raw data layer, or “lake.” About Hadoop, Muncy explained that “What Hadoop is bringing to more Interview with Mark Muncy of Syncsort: A Peek Inside...
View ArticleInterview with Simon Elliston Ball, head of big data at Red Gate Ventures, on...
When we corresponded, you communicated a lively understanding of ELT vs. ETL. Can you tell us about a project or two where the distinction became more Interview with Simon Elliston Ball, head of big...
View ArticleWhen You Want to be Spied Upon: Big Data, Epidemiologic Intelligence and the...
The release of information about government surveillance by defense worker Edward Snowden added fuel to already simmering privacy concerns. But what if someone told you more When You Want to be Spied...
View ArticleRetinal Scans to Individualized Cosmetics: Big Data Biometrics
From Star Trek Fleet to U.S. Army The film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is best known for its successful revival of the more Retinal Scans to Individualized Cosmetics: Big Data Biometrics is a post...
View ArticleExpert Interview with Kabir Ahmad at Mind Commerce
Q. Many observers follow the Gartner hype cycle methodology as a way of describing the state of a technology. Do you think there is an more Expert Interview with Kabir Ahmad at Mind Commerce is a post...
View ArticleThe Big Data of Robotics
Is robotics part of Big Data, or the reverse? “Big” certainly applies. When NASA said Google was leasing 1,000 acres of California’s former Moffett Field more The Big Data of Robotics is a post from...
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