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Searching and filtering Big Data: There are two sides to relevance

Posted by digitalassetman
/ May 3, 2012 / Leave a comment

As part of an ongoing series on analytics and Big Data, Michael Wu, principal scientist of analytics at Lithium Technologies, shares his thoughts on the explosion of data due to the social media revolution. Last time we talked about one of the most important function of analytics – to help us make better decisions. In order...

Posted in Big Data

Tagged Big data, BigQuery, Information retrieval
As unstructured data heats up, will you need a license to webcrawl?

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 23, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Stacey Higginbotham Cheap computing and the ability to store a lot of data at a low cost have made the concept of big data a big business. But amid the frenzy to gather that data, especially unstructured information scraped from or accessed via crawling web sites, companies might be pushing...

Posted in Big Data, Cloud Computing

Tagged Big data, Unstructured data
The online future is personal, and that requires big data

Posted by digitalassetman
/ March 23, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Mathew Ingram History shows that the most successful products and services — from the VHS video recorder to the Apple iPad — are the ones that are the most user-centric, and in order to construct those kinds of experiences companies need to use all the data that is at their...

Posted in Data mining, Linked Data, Trends

Tagged Big data, bigdata
Digital Marketing Attribution: Tapping the Data Disruption

Posted by digitalassetman
/ March 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Stephanie Miller You’ve likely heard something about “Big Data,” and may be wondering what this is and if it has any impact on marketers and your world. There are lots of ways people use (and misuse) the term, but for purposes of this column, let’s say that big data is...

Posted in Data mining, Trends

Tagged Big data, bigdata, Data Mining
As the big data meme gets louder, the semantic web quietly evolves

Posted by digitalassetman
/ March 2, 2012 / Leave a comment

This post started off as ripples in the tech marketing space-time continuum around the big data meme. Oo big data. Wasn’t it a big deal in ’09? Apparently it’s even more of a big deal now. According to a recent tech post, big data will be a $50 billion market in...

Posted in Data mining, Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged Big data, Semantic Web
5 real-world uses of big data

Posted by digitalassetman
/ July 18, 2011 / Leave a comment

In the past year, big data has emerged as one of the most closely watched trends in IT. Organizations today are generating more data in a single day than that the entire Internet was generated as recently as 2000. The explosion of “big data”–much of it in complex and unstructured formats–has...

Posted in Data mining

Tagged Big data
Critical Shortage Of “Data Geek” Talent Predicted By 2018

Posted by digitalassetman
/ June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

New research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) forecasts a 50 to 60 percent gap between the supply and demand of people with deep analytical talent. These “data geeks” have advanced training in statistics or machine learning who have the ability to analyze large data sets. The study projects there...

Posted in Data mining

Tagged Big data, Machine learning
Big Data and the Rogue Dentists of Kowloon

Posted by digitalassetman
/ June 14, 2011 / Leave a comment

by Pete Bell Imagine a city 500 times more densely populated than Hong Kong. With no government. Its ten-story tenements are so interconnected by makeshift bridges that street level is dark at noon. Absent government, crime syndicates rule, and drugs and prostitution abound. Most frightening of all: the city is a...

Posted in DAM Foundation, Data mining, Digital Assets

Tagged Big data, Data Warehousing, news