How does mass media introduce Big Data to the broadest of audiences? NPR Marketplace addresses the irony, “If big data is so smart, why are online ads so stupid?” and interviews Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel along the way: Big data is coming for us. It’s like the younger, online sibling of big brother,
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Use Code PATIMES15 for 15% off a two day pass or combo pass. (Excludes workshops & All Access) Earlier this year, the White House announced it named Dr. DJ Patil as its very first Chief Data Scientist....
If insurers could somehow forecast the future, what a safer, more productive, and more profitable future it might become. Loss prevention departments could greatly reduce both claim frequency and severity, while growth could be focused to mitigate...
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Today’s companies have the potential to benefit from incredibly large amounts of data. To shake off the mystery of this “Big Data,” it’s useful to know its history. In the not-so-distant past, firms tracked their own internal...
“Every step you take, I’ll be watching you” – when Sting wrote those lyrics back in the ’80’s he most certainly wasn’t thinking about digital data collection. But whether we realize it or not, every digital step...
Text analytics can reveal even more about customers Move over, Big Data. Here comes Big Text. Or, as it’s more commonly known, “text analytics.” Or, sometimes, “text mining.” Essentially, it’s the analysis of all the unstructured data...
Many data centers are finding it hard to keep pace with the demands growing information sets are putting on them Hospital datacenters are being overwhelmed by the ongoing data explosion. Pushed to acquire, analyze, secure and deliver...
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