When the holidays start, shopping starts to pick up. But you might not realize that there are certain things that affect your holiday habits. It helps to know what these are so you can make the best decisions. That way, when you are buying gifts you are not just spending money. Instead, you are doing it in a way that will get great gifts but also not break the … [Read more...] about How Big Data is Affecting Your Holiday Shopping Habits
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5 Ways Big Data Affects Your Personal Life: What Does This Mean?
Big data refers to huge data sets that are in exabytes of size. An exabyte is equal to a million terabytes. This large amount of data is used to better improve our everyday lives. From online shopping to TV streaming to preventing crime, big data has become an important role to help companies compile, analyze, and make use of this data. Here are some ways big data is used in … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Big Data Affects Your Personal Life: What Does This Mean?
DataCon Africa 2019
Harness the Power of Data Analytics to Evolve into an Insight Driven Enterprise DataCon Africa, established as a spin-off event of CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) will see international and local industry experts from various industries discuss challenges within data governance such as data remediation, enrichment, breaking down the silos, data security and more. … [Read more...] about DataCon Africa 2019
The Difference Between Big Data and Identity Theft
On the flight back from the London Big Data Week, tasked with writing an article about the rise of identity theft, I had a rare moment of insight where the two topics suddenly presented themselves as two aspects of the same phenomenon. One of the primary values of working with Big Data, after all, is that one may use insights drawn from one aspect of consumer behaviour to drive … [Read more...] about The Difference Between Big Data and Identity Theft
Analytics Leaders Summit 21-22 Feb, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand
It has been an exciting and very eventful 16 months since the Analytics Leaders' Summit The Bangkok edition was here. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has given his full support to the development of a digital economy in line with the Thailand 4.0 agenda. The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) Institute and a government big data analytics centre are progressing … [Read more...] about Analytics Leaders Summit 21-22 Feb, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand