The Internet of Things offers a lot of potential and when fully operational will have changed our lives dramatically. Once we live in a world were billion devices are connected to the Internet, our live will become a lot easier. There are already ample examples of this such as domotica in smart homes, the quantified self movement that monitors our daily … [Read more...] about How to Keep the Internet of Things Safe
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Big-Data-as-a-Service
In the first part of this blog, we looked at what BDaaS is and why it is important. In the second part, we will talk about how its expected to fare; the challenges and opportunities it brings about. Currently, the number of projects moving off-premises, either to public or private cloud service providers is quite consistent. To roughly estimate the size of the BDaaS market, one … [Read more...] about The Challenges and Opportunities of Big-Data-as-a-Service
The Ultimate Guide to Data Quality and Business Intelligence
Todays marketers are becoming technically savvier. They understand the need to improve customer experiences or implement digital marketing strategies to engage consumers across channels. Customer retention and acquisition, Big Data, social media marketing, and content marketing are just a few of the goals and strategies in todays marketing toolbox. However, perhaps not so … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to Data Quality and Business Intelligence
How to Improve Your Customer Service with Big Data
Any organization with a call centre or with customer-facing employees receive complaints and compliments on a daily basis. They talk to customers via the phone, email, messaging App or face-to-face and while doing that, they create massive amounts of data. Unfortunately, very few organizations actually use that data to improve their customer service. While in fact, that data … [Read more...] about How to Improve Your Customer Service with Big Data
The Ultimate Battle: R vs Python; Which is Better for Data Analysis?
Data analysis is of course an important part of Big Data. Analyzing your data streams and combining different data sources for new insights can be done with a variety of tools and programming languages. Which programming language or tool is the right tool for the job at hand? That is an important question and especially for newbie data analysts it is difficult to determine … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Battle: R vs Python; Which is Better for Data Analysis?