Top News Today | Big data meets business: solving problems that matter | Technology

Home
US
- Chicago
- Denver
- Los Angeles
- New York
- San Francisco
- Washington
Sport
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Football
- Golf
- Hockey
- MLB
- Motorsport
- NBA
- NFL
- NHL
- Soccer
- Tennis
Business
Technology
- Gadgetlab
- Green
- Internet
- Mobiles and Wireless
- PC Games
- Science
- Scitech
- Space
Lifestyle
- Art
- Beauty
- Books
- Culture
- Dining
- Fashion
- Health
- Style
- Travel
Entertainment
- Celebrity
- Games
- Gossip
- Movies
- Music
- Showbiz
- Tv
- Tvshowbiz
World
- Africa
- Asia-Pacific
- Canada
- China
- Europe
- India
- Japan
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Russia
- UK
Politics

Big data meets business: solving problems that matter

gigaom.com (10 months and 26 days ago)

Jun 25, 2012

Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Netezza for “Big data meets business,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at 10 a.m. PDT. full story

More news

Ideas for Solving the "Data" Problem First, the "Big" Problem Second: The Pentaho Way

Imagine a word cloud to represent discussions about how to make data useful in business right now. Based on what I saw at Strata in late February in Santa Clara, you would see “big” in letters about 4 inches high and the word “data” in regular 12 point type. As my pals at Gawker say, “Thatz Not Okay.”

forbes.com (2 months and 9 days ago)

Big Data: Is It Big Brother?

Intel cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell discusses the era of big data, how society has just begun to be able to harness it, and how it can be a benefit problem-solving.

palmbeachpost.com (15 days ago)

How search can solve big data problems

LucidWorks CTO Grant Ingersoll made his case at Structure:Data on Thursday for why companies tackling big problems related to large sets of data should give search another look.

gigaom.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Data science is not enough. We need data intelligence too

In his talk at Structure: Data, Quid's Sean Gourley talked about the meaningful differences between "data science" and "data intelligence." While one is concerned with correlations, the other is concerned about solving problems.

gigaom.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

A Big Data Approach to Measuring Small Businesses in America

The hype around "big data" in Silicon Valley has left many people confused with what "big data" actually means. There are numerous news stories and articles which catalogue the disasters facing many large enterprises when it comes to analyzing large data sets. Most companies aren't sure what they're looking for or are confused with how to make sense of disparate data -- I...

forbes.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Forget big data, small data is the real revolution

Rufus Pollock, Founder and Co-Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, discusses why current hype around big data misses the point, and why the real revolution is small data, loosely joined• More from the Guardian on big data• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianThere is a lot of talk about "big data" at the moment. For example, this is Big Data...

guardian.co.uk (26 days ago)

Pitfalls in putting data to work

Data from studies can be helpful in solving problems, if you’re aware of pitfalls.

seattletimes.com (22 days ago)

Phil Simon: The Current State of the Data Union

The following is excerpted from "Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data" (John Wiley & Sons, now available). Unstructured data is more prevalent and bigger than ever. This does not change the fact that relatively few organizations have done very much with it. For the most part, organizations lamentably have turned a deaf ear to this kind of information -- and...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months ago)

Kaggle Aims To Connect Companies With Successful Data Scientists

Over 80,000 data scientists from all over the world have now participated in Kaggle's data competitions - games where scientists compete for cash prizes to solve business problems for major companies. Kaggle competitions have helped improve premium pricing for Allstate, improve hospital pricing for GE, find talent for Facebook, and map the universe's dark matter for NASA....

forbes.com (2 months and 17 days ago)

Big Data: What's Next and How to Handle It All

We’ve heard a lot about big data recently. Some say it’s the greatest thing ever; others want us to focus on so-called small data. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you can’t ignore the need to do something with this data. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the volume of data will grow by 40 percent over the next seven years. That’s a lot of data to...

forbes.com (1 month and 19 days ago)

Big data meets business: solving problems that matter

Advertisement

Most read

Most popular

Follow us

Search