AirBnB is a short-term rental website, operational since 2008, that offers accommodations in 192 countries and has processed over 10 million nights booked. Visitors can book apartments, private rooms, boats, castles, tree houses, igloos, private islands and other properties in 34.000 cities around the world. There are over 500.000 listings, of which 600 castles. All these … [Read more...] about AirBnB Matches Apartments, Castles And Igloos With Guests Using Big Data
Archives for 2014
Five Myths Marketers Believe About Big Data – Infographic
A new infographic released by mentioned before, Big Data is not just for the IT department, but all departments will move into IT and require IT staff. In addition, a common misconception is that Big Data is just a hype that will pass before you know it. This is absolutely incorrect, as Big Data offers many possibilities for any organisation in any industry, but it is not easy … [Read more...] about Five Myths Marketers Believe About Big Data – Infographic
Lessons from Bear Grylls on Big and Little Data
The thought that 'hey there's more data than we can process!'is dressed up as the latest trend with associated technology must-haves. Big data has become one of the most overused corporate buzzwords for 2014. If your not dropping it into conversations, pretending you know what it is and tweeting about it you might as well not even bother turning up for school. If your not part … [Read more...] about Lessons from Bear Grylls on Big and Little Data
Five Key Big Data Challenges Companies Need To Overcome When Developing A Big Data Strategy
Developing a Big Data strategy for your organisations is not a simple task. It will take perseverance, trial and error and a cultural change to become a truly data-driven, information-centric organisation. For a lot of organisations, Big Data is still difficult to understand (27% of companies surveyed in a recent survey by Jaspersoft), while 20% of the organisations do not see … [Read more...] about Five Key Big Data Challenges Companies Need To Overcome When Developing A Big Data Strategy
How Barcelona Deploys Big Data To Improve Lives And Create A Smart City
The city protocol society is a worldwide initiative to provide open standards to manage the transformation of cities from non-connected cities to smart cities. Barcelona employs over 40.000 people who keep the city running and in order to manage all these employees they turned to big data. Big data helps Barcelona to improve the quality of live and the development of economic … [Read more...] about How Barcelona Deploys Big Data To Improve Lives And Create A Smart City
