News flash: big data is not sufficient to achieve pure efficiency or solve all business problems. Spoiler alert: big data is one tool among many in the business executive’s organizational arsenal. Opinion: people with insight and experience and street-smarts and common sense matter too. Summary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData, original opinion piece by Paul Thorley (CEO of Capgemini) in …
Nate Silver on Big Data
Nate Silver is a rock star. We’re often blind to our biases; big data helps surface the reality. Statistically speaking, Wednesday rules — Nate says so, and he’s a rock star. Summary article by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData and original article by Kurt Wagner in Fortune. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Nate speaks, big …
Two Sides to Social Media and Big Data
Coins have two sides, both heads and tails — and as Bret Michaels from Poison reminds us, “Every rose has it’s thorn.” Such is the case with both social media and big data, which like any new technologies, discoveries, and applications may be used for good and less good. Summary and commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData; original article by …
Big Data: “60M 5-Drawer File Cabinets per Hour”
The analogy used in the article below really drives home the visualization of simply how much data we’re talking about when we talk about big data. Wal-Mart — granted, the largest retailer on the planet — generates the equivalent of 60 million 5-drawer file cabinets’ worth of data EVERY HOUR. [ And using 3rd-grade math, that’s the equivalent of 1 …
Big Data = Big Savings in Healthcare
Tim McElligott of FierceBigData summarizes a recent report from McKinsey analyzing how the healthcare industry can reduce spending and improve patient outcomes by extracting information via big data. A few notable points: Fiscal concerns are driving the demand for big-data applications Health care expenses now represent 17.6 percent of the GDP Material improvement requires people to change their behavior Emphasis …
Big Data + Bioinformatics = Read This
Big Data + Bioinformatics = growth, hype, opportunity, risks, chatter, noise, funding, start-ups, confusion. The short summary / commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData below captures the current market state pretty well. AIS’ angle? ClearCompute, our bioinformatics software as a service offering to empower genetic researchers to do much of the heavy lifting and only pay for the resources they …
Old Guys Rule…When it Comes to “Little Data”
Old guys rule — or at least that’s what the bumper stickers say along the beaches of Encinitas. In the face of “little data”, experience counts. Old guys, step up to the mike. But when blessed with “big data” (i.e., lots of it), analytics shine. Sorry, geezers, take a nap. Below is a summary by Caron Carlson of FierceCIO about …
Less Is More? Big Data Security
Less is more — or so it would seem for firms weighing in on the topic of “big data security”. And if “less” is 40 terabytes PER DAY of security data, I shudder to wonder how much “more” would be. The article is from Ellen Messmer of NetworkWorld. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— Do …
Info-Graphic: How Big is Big Data?
I’m pleased to present a new info-graphic from AIS. Enjoy and share! Brian Wood, VP of Marketing [divider]
Big Data Solution “Secret” Sauce
Better, faster, cheaper — and now simplified, automated, visualized, interactive and self-servicing. Such is the mantra of successful big data solutions — or so says research published by Pentaho and summarized below by Caron Carlson of FierceCIO. It makes me wonder, however: Was there ever any doubt? Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Survey: Big data …
