Back in October 2011, Neelie Kroes VP of the European Commission, announced legal proposals to unlock the data held by the Europes public institutions. According to Kroes, opening up these datasets could double the value of it to around 70 billion. The open data portal is all about transparency, open government and innovation. All available data can be re-used, linked, analysed … [Read more...] about How To Use Public Data To Drive Innovation
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Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
The digital universe is expanding at a rate of 1 exabyte per day (that is the equivalent of 250 million DVDs!) and we are all responsible for this growth. Apart from the data that is not made publicly available, every day we like, we tweet, we comment, we share, we blog and we publish information on the web. We do this via our smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer and quite … [Read more...] about Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
Big Data Startup GoSquared is a Real-Time Analytics Platform
Company GoSquared Address White Bear Yard 144a Clerkenwell Road London EC1R 5DF Founders James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff & James Taylor Founded Februar 2006 Funding Unknown Employees 8 Website www.GoSquared.com Rating 5 bits  GoSquared is a real-time analytics platform to monitor the online presence of a website. The simple to use and understand dashboard … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup GoSquared is a Real-Time Analytics Platform
How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
In the old days IT was about saving money, while Big Data is about making money. If Big Data is about making money, it is about creating value and value should be placed on the balance sheet as an asset. A recent study by SAS showed that around 20% of the large UK companies are already assigning financial value to their data on the balance sheet of the company, so more … [Read more...] about How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
 Company Geckoboard Address Unit 310, Curtain House, 34-146 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AR, United Kingdom Founders Paul Joyce & Rob Hudson Founded 2010 Funding $ 1.8 million Employees 25 Website Geckoboard Rating 7 bits Geckoboard is a data communication tool that connects to all your data sources and displays your most important metrics on a … [Read more...] about Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
