One of the greatest Big Data challenges ahead of us is the scarcity in the available talent. The right Big Data scientist is a multi-skilled person that understands the world of IT and business and has the right creativity to develop difficult, technical, solutions that really help a data-driven, information-centric organisation. However, this mix of talent at the intersection … [Read more...] about How to Address the Big Data Talent Challenge
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Sears Became a Real-Time Digital Enterprise Due to Big Data
Sears is a large retailer from the US that is a true Big Data pioneer for quite some years already. They have learned, made mistakes and achieved success by hands-on effort. It currently operates a very large enterprise deployment of Hadoop. Sears was founded in 1893 and started as a shipping and mail order company. In 2005 it was acquired by Kmart, but continued to be … [Read more...] about Sears Became a Real-Time Digital Enterprise Due to Big Data
From Data Ownership to Data Usage: How Consumers Will Monetize Their Personal Data
In a world where more data is created than ever before, data ownership is gaining in importance. Not only organisations understand the value of data. Also consumers are becoming more aware of the value of their data and they are less willing to give companies their sensitive data for free. In the past years, consumers have become more careful in sharing their data with anyone. … [Read more...] about From Data Ownership to Data Usage: How Consumers Will Monetize Their Personal Data
Why UPS spends over $ 1 Billion on Big Data Annually
United Parcel Service (UPS) is the biggest package shipping company in the world. It was founded in 1907 and on a daily basis they make more than 16 million shipments to over 8.8 million customers globally. In addition, they receive on average 39.5 million tracking requests from customers per day. They employ in the US alone over 55.000 drivers and they have more than 100.000 … [Read more...] about Why UPS spends over $ 1 Billion on Big Data Annually
Big Data Startup Datawiz.io offers a Machine Learning Platform
 Company Datawiz.io Address 1811, Silverside RD Wilmington United States of America Founders Volodymyr Nepiuk and Xiangting Nepiuk Founded May 2013 Funding $ 170.000 Employees 7 Website www.Datawiz.io/ Rating 3 bits Datawiz is a young Big Data startup that has created an online analytics tool capable of integrating and visualizing Big Data and perform … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup Datawiz.io offers a Machine Learning Platform
