Managing big data, Part 2: Human questions and considerations
.@philsimon on the soft skills that Big Data requires.
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Overcoming the IT-Business divide in an era of big data, Part 2
.@philsimon on the new role of IT.
Big data integration: The case against an "all-in" approach
I've spent a great deal of time in my consulting career railing against multiple systems of record, data silos and disparate versions of the truth. In the mid-1990s, I realized that Excel could only do so much. To quickly identify and ultimately ameliorate thorny data issues, I had to up
Data management lessons from Google
@philsimon says that, yes, we can learn a great deal.
Finding the signal in the analytics noise
.@philsimon looks under the hood of 'analytics.'
What's the future of data? In a word, more.
When asked what his movement wanted around a century ago, the iconic American labor leader Samuel Gompers famously gave a one-word answer: "More." This annoyed his opponents at the negotiating table and many in the business community. He was not demanding a specific wage increase or fighting for a distinct cause like
A foxier way to search
What are all of the companies in San Francisco trying to make the Internet of Things happen? Google it if you like, but you're only like to get a simple list of companies, no doubt in an SEO-friendly order. What if you could see those companies in a more comprehensive
The case for contemporary dataviz and big data
We live in an era in which it's not terribly difficult for companies to ape many of their competitors' products and services, especially digital ones. For relatively small amounts of money (compared to years past), an organization can more or less mimic another's raison d'être and even specific functionality. As for design,
Big data: who owns this stuff, anyway?
We have entered the era of big data, but many questions remain unanswered. For instance, who owns all of this information, anyway? If you take a photo and post it on Facebook or Twitter, does it still belong to you? If you create a presentation with Google Docs, does Google
Getting started with big data
"Most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64 percent of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Those numbers simply don't fit with what I’m seeing, and I suspect that I'm hardly alone. (By way of