Big Data and Borges
From the May 26 issue of the Economist: “In A short story called ‘On Exactitude in Science’, Jorge Luis Borges described an empire in which cartographers became so obsessive that they produced a map as...
View ArticleThe Rise and Rise of Data Scientists
There has been a 500-fold increase in the number of “mathematicians and information technologists” between 1950 and 2000. Source: Places & Spaces
View ArticleNew Big Data Infographic
Big data infographic from CenturyLink Source: Business2Community.com
View ArticleAre You Social, Mr. CEO?
Integrating data from social networks with other data sources is a big reason for companeis to invest in big data technologies and processes. But at the top, is there sufficient understanding of the...
View ArticleBig Data and Marketing
Data-Rich and Insight-Poor: Marketers Planning to Turn Information Into Intelligence in 2013 Survey Report Sponsored by Yesmail Interactive and Infogroup Targeting Solutions Source: Infogroup...
View ArticleMary Meeker’s Annual Survey of IT Trends
Mary Meeker, partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual survey of information technology trends at the AllThingsD D11 conference today. Her summary:...
View ArticleThe Where, Why, and How of Big Data Initiatives (Infographic)
Courtesy of: The Emerging Big Returns on Big Data, A TCS 2013 Global Trend Study
View ArticleTEKsystems Big Data Survey Findings (Infographic)
90 percent of IT leaders and 84 percent of IT professionals believe investments of time, money and resources into Big Data initiatives are worthwhile However, only 14 percent of IT leaders report Big...
View ArticleWhat Will Make You a Big Data Leader?
The IBM Institute for Business Value’s 2013 analytics survey surveyed 900 business and IT executives from 70 countries. ”Leaders” (19% of the sample) were respondents self identified as...
View ArticleBig Data: Who, Why, and How (Infographic)
“Early adopters of Big Data analytics have gained a significant lead over the rest of the corporate world. Examining more than 400 large companies, we found that those with the most advanced analytics...
View ArticleBig Data and Intuition: Status Update
Two new reports on big data and big decisions were released last week by Accenture and PwC. Both reports shed new light on the impact of big data on enterprises today, and how it is changing the...
View Article96% of World Population on Mobile and 40% on Internet by End of 2014
The number of mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide is approaching the number of people on earth. Mobile-cellular subscriptions will reach almost 7 billion by end 2014, corresponding to a...
View ArticleThe Happiness Statistics (Infographic)
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View ArticleI disrupt, you disrupt, we all disrupt
From the blurb to the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption:...
View ArticleMary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends (Slides)
Update: Video here; BloombergBusiness selects the 9 slides that matter
View ArticleGoogle Stats of the Week: Learning by Smartphone
67% of millennials agree that they can find a YouTube video on anything they want to learn. Being constantly connected has trained us to expect immediacy and relevance in moments of intent—the...
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