Data pours into organisations from almost every angle imaginable. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises can easily collect gigabytes of data per day, startups can effortlessly reach terabytes of data per day and online organisations can even generate petabytes of data per day without any problem. However, simply having massive amounts of data is not enough to become an … [Read more...] about Five Key Characteristics Of Companies Using Big Data
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The Re-Identification Of Anonymous People With Big Data
The process of re-identifying individuals refers to using anonymized data to find individuals in public datasets. In order to re-identify individuals in large datasets, all you need is a laptop, an internet connection and public datasets and you can start digging for personal identifiable information (PII) hidden in the dataset. It looks simple; it is difficult but not … [Read more...] about The Re-Identification Of Anonymous People With Big Data
How To Use Public Data To Drive Innovation
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
How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation
How to truly incorporate Big Data at the heart of your company and to move from a product-centric organisation to an information-centric organisation, where decisions are based on hard data and extensive analyses. Where do you start, how do you convince your CEO and which questions do you need to ask? An IBM study revealed that at the moment 71% of the organisations are not … [Read more...] about How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation
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?
