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You had me at, “Would you like a grande latte?”
My local Safeway isn’t what I would call a very modern store. And the employees are either high school kids bagging groceries and collecting carts or middle-aged cashiers, bakers and butchers. It was a...
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The tragedy of free floating data
We’re getting exceptionally good at grabbing metrics from anywhere, and in real time, too. Business intelligence tools have evolved into visualization apps and as a result, colors, shapes and lines...
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Disruption: the Facebook and Big Data conspiracy
Facebook goes far beyond a social networking site. It has become the single best identity management service on the planet. Want to leave a comment on TechCrunch? You need to sign in with Facebook, not...
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The commoditization of Big Data
A wise man once said, “What has been, will be again. What has been done, will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.“ We’ve seen this before The year was 1996 and the birth of the term...
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What we all need to know about Big Data
Watching the buzz around Big Data, it would be easy to dismiss the hype as an answer looking for a solution. After all, how many times have you read about a remarkably good business model (other than...
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A whole new way to choose wine
The following was first posted on the Harvard Business Review. The hype around Big Data is growing to deafening proportions, fueled by the prospect that tools now exist that can let small businesses...
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The flaw in the data is you
Deloitte recently published A Delicate Balance, Organizational Barriers to Evidence Based Management. A surprising conclusion was that the biggest barrier to success with data analytics projects is...
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Big Data is the greenest data of all
The following is a guest post. As Co-founder of Fabless Labs, Piyush is in his element while developing the next generation of truly open, open source analytics solutions.Piyush is likewise no stranger...
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Dinosaurs made extinct by Big Data
Over the weekend we watched Moneyball with Brad Pitt. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it. This movie is the ideal platform to explain Big Data and why it matters. It can a be a struggle...
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Dinosaurs made extinct by Big Data – Part 2
My recent post on Brad Pitt’s Moneyball, led to a great discussion with Dr. Vijay Mehrotra, a well known management professor and analytics thought leader at the University of San Francisco’s School of...
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Why hasn’t process data been treated fairly?
I was recently asked, “Do you ‘fix’ processes before implementing a business process management system (BPMS)?” This is a very good question and something that sparks great debates whenever it comes...
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5 things you don’t know about your customer
This is a guest post by Lisa Arthur. I saw a statistic in Direct Marketing News recently that depressed me. According to a recent survey, fewer than one in five Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) think...
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The fundamental, data-driven shift in retail
Retail is undergoing an enormous change that is just getting started. If you’ve been to Best Buy lately, you’ll notice that selection on the shelves is decreasing and that the chain is moving more...
View ArticleBig Data, Bigfoot, UFO’s and the Loch Ness Monster
Seth Godin wrote today that Cellphones repel UFO’s. He meant that people carrying digital cameras in their pockets every day take copious pictures of real things. Those pictures spread a rich reality...
View ArticleWhat’s the big deal with unstructured data?
We hear the term “unstructured data” often. It’s brought up as the enormous challenge of big data and often cited as the reason why traditional relational databases don’t meet the needs of Big Data....
View ArticleIsn’t Big Data really about All Data?
Customer engagement involves having access to the information that allows right-time marketing to happen, based on interaction channel, context, and customer’s preferences. For some, this is the...
View ArticleStanding in the fire hose of data: drowning or refreshing?
Republished article on last year’s TUCON 2012 event. TUCON 2013 takes place October 14-17 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. Big Data is a great topic. Everyone recognizes the rise of the volumes of data...
View ArticleBig Data calls for the rise of the citizen developer
John Skovron has over twenty years of experience working with systems that run mega scale grid computing solutions. These are the systems used primarily at financial trading shops that are able to...
View ArticleWhat happened to the buzz around NoSQL?
Over the past several years there has been an enormous amount of press over NoSQL, which is a way to store and retrieve data found in a less structured and less consistent form than relational...
View ArticleTesco begins real-time marketing using facial recognition
Last week it emerged that retail giant Tesco is to implement screens in its forecourt petrol stations which can tell a customers’ age and gender in order target advertising more effectively. The system...
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