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?
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From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
The agricultural industry has seen many changes in the past 100 years. Since the birth of the industrial agriculture in 1900, we have moved forward to the era of digital enhanced agriculture where everything that is done prior to seeding and up to after harvesting produces data that can be analysed. Big data already transformed the agricultural industry a lot and in the coming … [Read more...] about From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
Can Big Data Predict The Future? Video
Jeff Hawkins - creator of the Palm Pilot - tells how his passion for neuroscience resulted in building brains in software and hardware. This creation of software that uses brain-like techniques can learn from streaming big data, predict the future and detect anomalies. The engine that drives it is now an open source project called NuPIC that you can use to add brain science to … [Read more...] about Can Big Data Predict The Future? Video
Roambi Offers Interactive Mobile Big Data Visualizations
Company Roambi Address 120 S. Sierra Ave Solana Beach, CA 92075, USA Founders Santiago Becerra, Jaime Zuluaga, Quinton Alsbury & David Becerra Founded 2008 Funding $ 44 million Employees 100 Website www.Roambi.com/ Rating 8 bits  Roambi is a big data startup that completely focuses on mobile visualizations and they understand that practice pretty well. … [Read more...] about Roambi Offers Interactive Mobile Big Data Visualizations
How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
Many industries are starting to see the benefits that can be reaped from analysing and visualizing the vast amounts of data that is created nowadays. Slowly also the more conservative industries are waking up and looking into the direction of big data. One of these industries in the legal industry: justice courts, legal firms and law firms all included. But there are still many … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
