Written by Radhika Subramanian, CEO, Emcien Corp. About fifty years ago, Atlanta was the size of Little Rock, Ark. About a hundred years before that, it was burned to the ground. Atlanta has proven again and again that it’s got gumption and can grow, and is doing so now, becoming the tech hub of the east. With a firm foundation that includes the busiest international airport in the world, a vibrant cluster of corporate giants... Read More
By Sandra Hanchard and Tirath Ramdas Big Data has the potential to have an enduring impact on every part of society, but the devil is in the details. How will various groups be affected? Will some benefit more than others? These questions brought together professionals from diverse sectors, including technology, business, government and education during an interactive workshop, Big Data in Market Research and Beyond, organised by Big Data Malaysia on 1st February 2013 at... Read More
ATLANTA, GA — Emcien Corp., a pioneer in automatic pattern detection for Big Data, announced today its partnership with Big Data Week, a global effort dedicated to connecting a number of cities including Barcelona, Moscow and Shanghai through locally hosted meetups, events, networking functions, demos, debates, hackathons and more. This partnership ensures that Atlanta-based organizations can take part in the movement by hosting individual functions throughout the city during the week, which takes place on... Read More
The Human Face of Big Data – Large Format Illustrated Book and iPad App By Rick Smolan My ten year old son recently heard me speaking on the phone about this project and asked me what Big Data is. I thought for a minute and then said, “Imagine if the whole human race had been looking through one eye for all of our existence and, all of a sudden, scientists gave us the ability to... Read More
Big Data is the biggest trend in IT right now, however the term is loosely thrown around and becoming increasingly ambiguous. Everyone seems to be doing some sort of “Big Data” nowadays, which can cause great confusion among organizations with actual Big Data needs. We at IKANOW focus on unstructured data analytics, and may be a little bias, but believe it is an essential part of any Big Data offering. One question we hear all... Read More
Big data isn’t just for those who can wrangle Hadoop or wrestle with R. Service interfaces (APIs) make it easy for even the relative novice explorer some creative solutions. Working for an innovation centre I often find the need to quickly glue together service APIs to gain some insight from the data flowing around our sector. More often than not I turn to Google Sheets (Spreadsheets) and Google Apps Script to rapidly develop dashboards I... Read More
Big Data Week is pleased to announce new dates for the 2013 week long festival. We’ll be kicking off on the 22nd April 2013 and running until the 28th April with a mixture of meetups, network events, hackathons and other fun data stuff. This year Big Data Week has partnered with media140 Worldwide, the hugely successful digital and social media community platform, to produce and co-ordinate the weeklong series of activities and events. Big Data... Read More
Francesco D’Orazio, CIO FACE, Facegroup.com – captures the attention of the #bdw12 audience with a great session on “10 reasons why we visualize data”. Face is the co-creation agency. We help brands to stay ahead by doing things with people rather than at them. We use a mix of cutting edge methodologies and proprietarytools to enable the direct and active involvement of consumers with brands to deliver a range of insights, brand and innovation objectives.... Read More