In the past decade, Big Data solutions have become the most impactful breakthrough in the data science industry. There has never been a better time to pursue a data career to help organizations wade through the Big Data challenge: to achieve value-add business analysis and unlock data insights to meet their business goals. Data Scientists
There’s conflicting opinions on when the term Big Data really came onto the scene, but it is undeniable that its notoriety has skyrocketed in the past few years. Big Data has become the hot topic buzzword around...
If big data has reached a point where it has simply become essential to everything else, why are so many companies still struggling to put their data to good use? The big data furniture Big data used...
Editorial note: The story of a teen’s pregnancy being discovered as a result of analytics has been essentially refuted – see this article The retail sector is no stranger to change and transformation. In the early days,...
Big Data and text analytics are all the rage in the field of law today. However, there is a dearth of precise definitions of these technologies and of the understanding of what they do. This is the...
The excitement over “big data” has grown dramatically. But what is the value, the function, the purpose? The most actionable win to be gained from data is prediction. This is achieved by analytically learning from data how...
Activision allowed two of their most credentialed employees to host a PAX ’15 panel on the role users play in game development. PhDs Justin Shacklette and Spencer Stirling spent nearly an hour explaining how the company is...
Gartner, the leading market and technology research firm, has published its 2015 Hype Cycle Report of Emerging technologies. Fig. 1: Gartner 2015 Hype Cycle. For comparison, here is Fig. 2: Gartner 2014 Hype Cycle. What’s the Hype...
Everyone is running around talking about big data nowadays – and yes, our databases are immense. A gigabyte used to sound like a lot. Today, we talk about terabytes without blinking. But big data didn’t grow up...
There are many vendors selling products classified as big data analytics software. However, it’s challenging to differentiate these products based on functionality alone, as many of the tools share similar features and capabilities. Additionally, some of the...
