Believe it or not, it's big data that actually controls self-driving vehicles. Sound a bit far-fetched to you? Autonomous vehicles like Google's self-driving cars that are so often talked about use a variety of traffic and environmental data to constantly analyze their position in the world. The cars are outfitted with a myriad of sensors to monitor things like their … [Read more...] about How Autonomous Cars Will Make Big Data Even Bigger
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Will the Real Data Scientist Please Step Forward?
I ask this question as, here at MBN Solutions, we have noticed a concerning trend recently. We frequently speak to companies who are looking to hire data scientists and then only realizing once they interview candidates thats not what they need. And, after recently having spent two days attending the Data IQ Summit, we know that this is a particularly hot topic in the data … [Read more...] about Will the Real Data Scientist Please Step Forward?
The Future of Big Data? Three Use Cases of Prescriptive Analytics
In 2014, Gartner placed prescriptive analytics at the beginning of the Peak of Inflated Expectations in their Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies. According to Gartner, it will take another 5-10 years before prescriptive analytics will be common in boardrooms around the world. But what is prescriptive analytics, how can we use it and how can it help organizations in their … [Read more...] about The Future of Big Data? Three Use Cases of Prescriptive Analytics
How Google Applies Big Data To Know You – Infographic
Google is of course an expert in big data. They have developed many open source tools and technologies that are widely used in the big data ecosystem. Using many different big data techniques it is capable of sifting through millions of websites and petabytes of data and to give you the right answer within milliseconds. How do they do that? Google applies Big Data to understand … [Read more...] about How Google Applies Big Data To Know You – Infographic
The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
At the moment there are more than 1 billion Facebook users, of which around 850 million are active on a monthly basis. There are more than 100 billion connections and each day gives us 2.7 billion new likes. Twitter has 500 million users and 180 million tweets are sent every day. Approximately 100 million Twitter users are active on a monthly basis. Linkedin has 200 million … [Read more...] about The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
