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Five Factors to Consider for Your Big Data Initiative

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The four Vs. If youre reading this post, chances are good you know what they stand for. In the off-chance you dont, they represent volume, variety, velocity, and value. The first three are relatively quantifiable. The fourth, however, is a bit less tangible, less quantifiable, and as a result it makes it hard to associate a solid ROI to the concept of Big Data usage. This in … [Read more...] about Five Factors to Consider for Your Big Data Initiative

Reclaim your name: FTC Commissioner’s Big Data Plan

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On June 26th, United States FTC Commissioner Julie Brill spoke to over 100 activists, advocates, journalists, attorneys, and industry professionals at the 2013 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Washington, D.C. about the challenges she and others are facing with privacy and rising tide of data flooding the world. While extolling the benefits of Big Data, she … [Read more...] about Reclaim your name: FTC Commissioner’s Big Data Plan

Cooking with Big Data

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When you think of Big Data, the types of companies using it are probably technology based, perhaps in the finance sector, marketing, websites, and anyone else that needs to process their structured, semi structured, or unstructured data for insights.  But what about offline businesses? They probably have a website, but their business transactions are typically done face to … [Read more...] about Cooking with Big Data

The Beauty Is In Big Data Visualizations

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Raw data is essentially worthless, only when smart algorithms analyse the data it becomes valuable. Analysed data cannot only be valuable it can also be extremely beautiful. Sometimes data gets explained with stunning visualizations. Visualizations that you did not expect upfront, that contains a wealth of information that you had not expected. Sometimes, big data … [Read more...] about The Beauty Is In Big Data Visualizations