Tag: Data
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What is Big Data?
This is. (More serious answer after). What does Big Data mean? (1) The current use of the term big data took off because it was used to refer to new technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce (2) Most definitions refer to the data characteristics outlined by analyst Doug Laney in 2001: the 3Vs: extremes of volume,…
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Concrete Examples of How Health Intelligence Saves Lives
An excellent article in Health Data Management gives some wonderful examples of the power of analytics to improve health outcomes.
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Relying on Data Can Lead to the Wrong Decisions Says CFO.com
I just read a new CFO Magazine article called “That New Big Data Magic”, which contains the following opening paragraphs: Back in the 1980s, American Airlines (AA) was partnered with British Airways (BA), and AA’s marketing head wanted to know how many of the airline’s gold card members, its most profitable customers, were flying BA…
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SAP HANA: Why Wait?
An updated “real real-time” computing video about SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance). What are you waiting for? (Oh — maybe more details about what it actually is?! Coming soon…)
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Where Idiots Get Their Data: Other Idiots (Don’t Let it Happen in Your Company)
Bad data and bad conclusions are the scourge of “the internets” — don’t let it happen in your company, too.