Big Data
Big data analytics help organizations across industries to make sense of large volumes of unstructured and structured data, enabling them to provide solutions faster. Find all articles, information and resources related to big data.
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How Do Big Companies Collect Customer Data?
Data has become one of the world’s most valuable resources thanks to the rapid digital transformation of global industries. In today’s digital era – the Fourth Industrial Revolution – customer data is the new oil, giving tremendous economic power to companies that produce and control it, and a pivotal information advantage when it comes to
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5 Big Data Predictions for 2019
It wasn’t so long ago that big data was the sole reserve of big businesses – massive, global corporations with equally big budgets. Only these organizations could afford the otherwise prohibitively expensive technology, skilled data scientists and channels needed to collect, store, analyze and draw insights from vast, vast quantities of data. Today, however, the
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5+ Great Big Data Blogs to Help You Start Your Big Data Journey
Big data is a powerful tool. Defined as very large (huge) datasets that can be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends and associations – especially in connection with human (i.e. customer) behavior and interactions – big data can lead to substantial breakthroughs and more solid business decisions for those who learn how to leverage it
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Data Analytics Leader Yellowfin BI Delivers on New Visions of Data-Driven Decisions and Stories
Halloween may be an already-faded memory, but it was also when a data analytics company called Yellowfin BI introduced new tricks and treats for businesses that use data to drive decisions. Recently, Yellowfin announced immediate availability of two new solutions, Yellowfin Signals and Yellowfin Stories. Each is designed to enable better business decisions by providing innovative
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Arm-ing the IoT: Rule, Britannia?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a recap of and some reflections on recent IoT-related announcements centered around one of the world’s leading chipmakers that isn’t Intel or AMD. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial
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Big Data is Changing the Face of Digital Marketing
The ability to harvest and analyse, with great speed, a wide range of data on customer behavior is changing the face of the marketing industry. Marketers have long relied on demographic information to identify, get to know, and predict the behavior of their customers. The rise of big data gives marketers, not only the opportunity to
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How Tech is Killing Cold Calling in Sales
The digital era is revolutionizing the way sales teams operate. Specifically, the longtime process of solicitation without prior communication, known as cold calling, is losing popularity. The reason for this demise is primarily the rise of the internet, where the buyer feels empowerment in making their own purchasing decisions and comparing competitors. Sales professionals, meanwhile,
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Data USA Adds Profiles of Higher Education Institutions to Visualization Platform
Data USA has released new data visualization profiles summarizing the costs, demographics, debt, acceptance rates, financial aid, and endowments of more than 7,300 universities and higher education institutions in the US. The visualizations make available data from the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS). Data USA is a free, open data visualization
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