Next Generation Data Integration: Data Curation

Aug 29, 2015 by Randy Bean in Big Data Analytics

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Around the time Chris Anderson introduced the “long tail” to the masses in a 2004 Wired cover story, MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and others were studying how products in low demand could produce a larger market share than higher demand items — if the distribution channel was large enough. The “long...

Dell Statistica Takes the Analytic Man to the Data Mountain

Aug 21, 2015 by Eric Rogge in Internet of Things

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Dell reveals their Native Distribution Architecture (NDA) for Statistica whereby predictive models and development environments are pushed closer to data’s location, reducing performance degradation from network bandwidth constraints. For IoT, this will be a prevalent architecture attribute,...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spreadmarts

Aug 17, 2015 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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For decades, business intelligence (BI) professionals have been trained to stamp out spreadmarts—those pesky spreadsheets and Access databases that analysts create outside the official purview of corporate BI/IT. But today, savvy BI managers view spreadmarts as a vehicle to turn them from data...

Information: The Next Natural Resource Part 1

Aug 16, 2015 by William McKnight in Information Management

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This article introduces a 3-part series on the value of information, how it is has become the next natural resource of the planet and how big data is leading the way.

Data Wrangling, Information Juggling and Contextual Meaning, Part 3

Aug 13, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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Reducing preparation and cleansing time for data scientists is imperative, and is driving a whole new set of software tools to help. But first, it requires a reinterpretation of the concepts of data, information, context, knowledge and meaning. This is the third and final article in a series...