Jessops (photographic retailing), JJB Sports (British Sports retailer), Comet Group (Electrical retail chain), Habitat (retailer of household furniture) and Borders (international book and music retailer) have all recently entered into administration. Perhaps the one commonality is that they failed to remain tuned to their environment and changing customer requirements, so … [Read more...] about Want To Get Ahead Of The Competition? Put Big Data Analytics At The Heart Of Your Corporate Strategy
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Three Innovative Ways How Big Data Will Improve the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare is rapidly becoming another digitized industry that will generate vast amounts of data that can be analysed. Taking into account that a fully sequenced human genome accounts for 100 gigabyte of raw data, it may be clear that the healthcare industry will generate vast amounts of data in the coming years. All that data can be analysed to create tailored medicines, … [Read more...] about Three Innovative Ways How Big Data Will Improve the Healthcare Industry
Recorded Future Focuses on the Art of Predictive Analytics
Company Recorded Future Address Cambridge, USA 1430 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA Founders Erik Wistrand, Staffan Truv & Christopher Ahlberg Founded 2009 Funding $ 20.9 million Employees 48 Website www.recordedfuture.com/ Rating 7 bits  Predictive analytics are becoming more important as they are the most valuable analysis within big data as they help … [Read more...] about Recorded Future Focuses on the Art of Predictive Analytics
Why The 3V’s Are Not Sufficient To Describe Big Data
It is generally accepted that big data can be explained according to three Vs: Velocity, Variety and Volume. In a 2001 research report, META Group (now Gartner) analyst Doug Laney defined big data as being three-dimensional, i.e. increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in and out), and variety (range of data types and sources). Later in 2012 Gartner updated … [Read more...] about Why The 3V’s Are Not Sufficient To Describe Big Data
How Our Lives Will Become Datafied video
We have always had the urge to track our daily lives, but with the quantified self movement technology has become so widely available that we can now track anything we want 24 hours a day. From knowing how fast you ate, to how much you walked, how you slept and even how much you went to the toilet. There is an app for almost anything you want to track. Join David Pierce from … [Read more...] about How Our Lives Will Become Datafied video
