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Tag: Big Data
Severe consequences face big data analytics without governance, experts say
Many big data projects are long underway, driven mainly by advertisers, large retailers and e-commerce businesses eager to make money by correlating a shopper's online social activity and interests with buying habits. Experts say big data analytics will soon extend to healthcare data. It will go beyond human genome research.
Big data gets the algorithms right but the people wrong
We create so much data every day that 90 percent of the information in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. McKinsey estimates that by 2018, U.S. businesses will need 1.5 million new data managers and analysts. More>>
10 U.S. Cities Making the Most Big Data Hires
Making an impact with advanced analytics and all aspects of big data requires the right talent. But what U.S. cities are making the biggest effort to find big data expertise and skills? Enterprise data and IT career community Dice reviewed the more than 83,000 tech-related job postings as of the start
Big data privacy concerns spur research, innovation
Big data privacy concerns are becoming common. Many organizations already have the data they need –but they’re afraid to use it. A group of MIT professors, all panelists at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, offered some enlightening -- and chilling -- potential uses for gathered and analyzed data. For researchers,
Getting Big Data Ready for Business: Tackling Big Data Governance and Quality
The data direct: How data is driving corporate strategy—and what still lies ahead
The data directive is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, commissioned by Wipro. It seeks to explore the degree to which the ongoing data revolution within business is delivering truly strategic change within companies, as opposed to more incremental optimization gains. Although many of the issues discussed here stray into
Big Data will become “just data” by 2016
Potential, Pitfalls of ‘Big Data’ for Humanitarians
Humanitarians and crisis-affected communities are increasingly exploiting new technologies to gather near real-time information to prepare for, prevent and handle disasters, even as analysts caution against overreliance on "big data". More>>
What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst
Big Data is in. There is a huge demand not only for Big Data Scientists but for Big Data Analysts as well. While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst needs to performs data analysis on a