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We’re a funny lot. For years we’ve been talking about data and process as though they were two different things. Guess what…they’re not. Process involves the activities of getting work done and data both describes process and is also the beginning and end points of work. We consume data in processes and we produce data […]

Unstructured data has become the best friend and maybe the last defense of the traditional worker. The more unstructured data in the enterprise, the greater the need for people to solve the problem of information that’s hard to understand, aggregate, analyze, make decisions against and act upon. Great outcomes depend on how accurately and quickly […]

The following is a guest post by Matt Quinn. We constantly hear people talking about big data as a monstrous mess. They usually describe it as a difficult problem to tackle, as though big data itself has a beginning and an end, or a neat solution. I’ve been to many conferences in the last few […]

The following is a guest post by Alistair Croll. A couple of years ago, I spoke with an European Union diplomat who shall remain nameless about the governing body’s attitude to privacy. “Do you know why the French hate traffic cameras?” he asked me. “It’s because it makes it hard for them to cheat on their […]

Big Data is only part of the CMO’s new armoury. It’s what you do with that information next that has the biggest impact on the entire customer experience. This is no longer your grandfather’s marketing campaign story. In order to understand customers better the data collected has to be put into context against their behaviour […]

In his summary for a report out last week, Gartner’s Doug Laney confirmed what some have been saying about making Big Data a part of more than simply research: Interlacing operational technology and “big data” initiatives can generate lucrative supplemental benefits. Information strategists should plan to use OT-generated data to bolster analytics and exploit big […]

It would be hard to overstate the level of attention being given to Big Data over the last several years. Is it really what The Economist calls a “data deluge,” and is Popular Science accurate when they say, “Data is Power”? It would be completely understandable to be cynical of the hype driven by analysts, journalists, and a myriad […]

The following is a guest blog by Jesse Paquette. Everyone thought that The Netherlands Cancer Institute’s 12 year old dataset on breast cancer was old news. That was until a researcher with Merck & Co, Pek Lum, analyzed and visualized the dataset with the use of topological data analysis (TDA) and advanced machine learning technology. Her analysis […]

Not only is the answer “yes,” the need to visualize data on mobile devices is increasing very rapidly. I’m not talking about iPads and other larger-than-smartphone screens, I mean visualizing on the iPhone and its equivalents…a very small screen with very little space for numbers. Simple data visualization This is where visualization takes on new […]

Data visualization has an amazing ability to make the complex simple, and the latest tools can do much more than give everyone the same view of data. It’s only through visualization that we can take something as abstract as symbols and turn it into a physical image that has dimensions that our eyes can quickly […]