Social Analytics in the Enterprise

Information Management (blog) Tweet. Social Analytics in the Enterprise. Women in BI. Do You Need a Data Scientist? Beyond the Big Data Hype. A Course for BI Success. How to Join a Twitter Chat. Transformation in the Cloud. Agile Data Warehousing: What’s New? Big Data in Context … (more)

Big Data Goes Real-Time

Smart Data Collective Data seems to be the buzz on the street now, and not just any kind, but Big Data. But what exactly is Big Data? IBM defines it through 4 Vs: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity. Simply put, it implies large amounts of data that is varied in nature … (more)

Amazon lofts Hadoop into GovCloud

Register Amazon has flung its implementation of Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, onto its “GovCloud” data center hub. The launch of EMR atop GovCloud was announced by Amazon on Tuesday, and sees the Seattle-based infrastructure farmer give US … (more)

So you want to be a data scientist?

Techworld.com After months of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn’t seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very “in” job title: data scientist … (more)

Big data: Big potential, big priority

CIOL While most companies are collecting, storing and analyzing data, the report reveals that many are struggling with both the business and IT challenges of Big Data. For example, while 60 per cent of survey respondents globally agreed that Big Data will … (more)