The commercial music streaming service Spotify was launched in 2008 and since then is has registered over 24 million active users of which 6 million are paying users. The have 3.7 million Facebook fans. It has over 20 million songs online and every day 20.000 new songs are added to the database. Users created over 1 billion playlists and over $ 500 million has been paid out to … [Read more...] about How Big Data Enabled Spotify To Change The Music Industry
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Seven Myths About Big Data
It may be clear that there is enough information to be found on the web regarding big data. Everyone has a different explanation of big data and what it can mean for organisations. With so much information around big data to be found, it is easy to become confused and to read the wrong information. So lets dispel some of the most common big data myths and big data … [Read more...] about Seven Myths About Big Data
What Are The Questions To Ask When Developing A Big Data Strategy?
A recent story on InformationWeek shows how two CEOs can view the same company so completely different. Both CEOs used big data analytics to help them in defining the right strategy for the company. The first CEO was fired after 17 months on the job and responsible for a 25% drop in revenue in one year. The second CEO took a different look on the same data and is now … [Read more...] about What Are The Questions To Ask When Developing A Big Data Strategy?
JethroData is an Analytic Database Technology
Company JethroData Address 1133 Broadway Suite 706 New York, NY 10010, USA Founders Boaz Raufman, Ronen Ovadya & Eli Singer Founded February 2012 Funding $ 4.5 million Employees 15 Website www.JethroData.com/ Rating 6 bits JethroData is an analytic database technology that runs on Hadoop and provides automatic indexing of data that is written into … [Read more...] about JethroData is an Analytic Database Technology
An Extensive Glossary Of Big Data Terminology
Big data comes with a lot of new terminology that is sometimes hard to understand. Therefore we have created an extensive Big Data glossary that should give some insights. Some of the definitions refer to a corresponding blog post. Of course this big data glossary is not 100% complete, so please let us know if there are missing terminology that you would like to see … [Read more...] about An Extensive Glossary Of Big Data Terminology
