The promise of "big analytics" from an analyst’s perspective

Sascha Schubert
Sascha Schubert|December 14, 2011

Big data has been a hot topic recently, but more often than not the topic is covered from an IT perspective. What do the analysts, data miners and statisticians think? I recall the old days discussing with statisticians what data mining is and how it fundamentally differs from statistics. In [...]

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Why big data analytics now?

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|September 12, 2011

A current media hype phrase used to describe the ever-growing volume and size of corporate information is “big data.” SAS hosts an annual series of business leadership conferences that bring together industry thought leaders, innovators, world leaders, challengers and inspirational speakers to discuss the dynamics needed for a competitive future. [...]

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Big brother, big data and big analytics

Michael Newkirk
Michael Newkirk|September 2, 2011

A lot of ink is being spilled over Steve Jobs leaving Apple. Okay here is a little more. Some of my younger friends and colleagues are surprised I have purchased an iPad. Apparently, to younger folk, most persons of my advanced years seem technologically challenged. But I learned a valuable [...]

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The promise of high-performance analytics

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|August 26, 2011

The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or how much of it there is, complex analytical procedures can still access that data, conduct a series of calculations on that data and provide answers quickly, accurately and using the full [...]

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The journey to high-performance analytics

Radhika Kulkarni
Radhika Kulkarni|August 9, 2011

Rome was not built in a day.  Similarly, high-performance analytics is a product of many cumulative architectural, computational and analytical advances. The ability to solve complex business problems by applying algorithms from multiple disciplines to increasingly large volumes of data of all types – both structured and unstructured – is [...]

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