It happens to the best of us. You know your business is bursting with useful data, and you’ve only begun to scratch the surface. So you strike out to build an analytical platform, using all the great open-source tools you’ve been hearing so much about. First, you have...
Catch me if you can. That seems to be the mantra of the modern day cyber thief, fraudster or money launderer. Cloaked behind anonymizers, spoofing and botnets, criminals employ extensive means to go undetected. While advances in technology can provide organizations...
Apache Hadoop has emerged as the leading technology for helping companies mine big data. And while every organization is different, their big data demands are often similar. Hadoop enables companies to collect and process massive amounts of data that was once thought...
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons” - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949. Predictions. Rock solid, one day. Busted as myth, the next. But the relentless march of our imagination – and creation - must go on....
BANGALORE, INDIA: Crayon Data, a Singapore-based big data start-up with a key development centre in Chennai, announced that it has raised in excess of 1.75 million Singapore Dollars (SGD) in its second round of fund raising since the initial round of funding at the...
If there was a PR utopia, it would look something like this: Businesses would send journalists timely, interesting stories. Journalists would receive an ongoing supply of quality information. Readers, in turn, would grow enthusiastic about brands, turning media...
Marketers feel underqualified to handle the challenges presented by the rise of “big data”, with 70 per cent admitting they don’t have the necessary skills, according to a GfK and Guardian Media Network report. The report, which polled the views of 1,011 UK consumers...
As we move from an era of automating transactions to the era of data, the information challenges banks face are increasingly around understanding and creating intelligence from information. Areas like regulatory compliance, customer insight, or real-time offer...
Tableau Consumer Conference 2013 features many of the company’s big data customers who have found ways to use Tableau’s technology to make their businesses better. One such company is Barclays, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company. At...
Each day 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are generated around the world-from tweets and Facebook posts to comments and blogs to data being collected constantly on mobile phones and connected devices, this nearly incomprehensible mountain of information is...
Purpose: The purpose of this document is to explain how to apply the power of Hadoop Big Data platform in Manufacturing scenario. Challenge: Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand...
According to historians of economic theory, there are two ways to define creative destruction. One is negative—that capitalist systems unleash forces that lead to their own demise. The other is positive—that those forces result in better products and services that...
While most sports fans probably think baseball—and more precisely, Moneyball—when considering sports and data, there is a quiet data revolution that has been percolating in the world of football for some time. Data is driving player training, play calling and...
San Francisco-based radio cab service provider Uber started operations in India recently. While one can book Uber’s luxury taxi service using a smartphone app, most Indian radio cab players, too, are using similar technology, making use of big data to understand the...
Gamification is winning over the corporate sector as a toolkit for motivating the next generation of consumers and users. But it’s the potential of gamification and big data together that is getting industry pundits increasingly excited. Gamification’s ascent from...
Enterprise cloud apps company Workday is adding big-data tools in its next release, allowing firms to mix large volumes of diverse outside data with internal information for HR and financial reporting. In Workday 20, which becomes generally available this week with...
Here is another interesting use case that came up when I was working with one of our clients in the insurance industry. The client had enormous amount of claim data residing in multiple databases in SQL Server which were to be consolidated into one. Some of the...