C-suite executives are at once enamored and afraid of big data. The notion of information created moment-to-moment and with every action of a company hints at massive analytics opportunity, but it can seem simultaneously overwhelming. Increasingly, IT...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) knows there are two sides to every coin. The company has achieved new power by predicting employee behavior, a profitable practice that may raise eyebrows among some of its staff. HP tags its more than...
CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data. As more organizations hire data scientists–especially for predictive analytics projects–IT leaders are discovering that managing people who can turn data into ideas...
How can the actions and reactions of proteins so small or stars so distant they are invisible to the human eye be accurately predicted? How can blurry images be brought into focus and reconstructed? A new study...
Privacy by Design, an outlook toward software development developed in the 1990s, urges companies to bake privacy protection features into its analytic systems and processes from their conception. While many executives have supported the notion of anonymizing...
This is my final article for this year. It’s hard to imagine that it’s almost 2014, and yet I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found myself in the following situation: I meet someone at a...
Pasha Roberts will present at PAW San Francisco on this case study. A call center for a global financial firm had a problem – attrition. In order for a new employee to even be permitted to speak...
