Big data can provide a lot of benefits for organisations from any industry, any size and from all over the world. The problem that organisations quite often encounter is not so much that they do not have enough data, but that they fail to use it in a meaningful way. This infographic, made by big data best practices prepared for you. … [Read more...] about How To Put Big Data To Work – Infographic
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How To Understand And Visualize Big Data Video
Visualizing big data is one of the most important aspects of big data but it is also one of the most difficult aspects. Giorgia Lupi, Design Director at Accurat, explains how to make aesthetically beautiful compositions of data that tell the story of the data, every time. She shares beautiful visualizations and tells how they achieve and create those visualizations. … [Read more...] about How To Understand And Visualize Big Data Video
Crimson Hexagon is a Social Media Analytics Platform
Company Crimson Hexagon Address 155 Seaport Boulevard Seaport West Building, Third Floor Boston, MA 02210, USA Founders Gary King Founded August 2007 Funding $ 5 million Employees 106 Website www.crimsonhexagon.com/ Rating 7 bits  Crimson Hexagon is a patented social media analytics platform using big data to generate insights into the ever-growing volume of … [Read more...] about Crimson Hexagon is a Social Media Analytics Platform
How Big Data Enabled Spotify To Change The Music Industry
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
Big Data Improves Education – Infographic
How would the education system look like if each student received the same personalized experience as they do when buying something on Amazon? Education is an industry that can benefit a lot from big data, as I showed in an previous blog post. With more online learning taking place at websites such as Coursera, Udacity or edX and also universities providing more and more … [Read more...] about Big Data Improves Education – Infographic
