At 12:40 pm on May 8th, Margaret Jastrebski, Vice-President of Product Management for Narrative Science will talk about Quill Engage, a new free application to help marketers quickly extract insight from their Google Analytics data. Powered by Narrative Science’s proprietary artificial intelligence platform, Quill™, Quill Engage analyzes Google Analytics data and creates easy-to-understand reports, written in plain English, which are automatically generated on a weekly and monthly basis. We asked Margaret few questions about Quill... Read More
At 11: 10 am on May 7th, Eugene Granovsky is ready to help the public at large understand more about the idea of Quantified Self, wearable technology, and it’s affect on us. His Big Data Week presentation, “The Quantified Self World From an Individual’s Perspective” will explore these issues, which range from the lifetime value of tracking to the lack of accurate data. As the number of QS products and services explode, both the research... Read More
At 1:40pm on May 7th, James O’Hara, Vice-president and co-founder of Extended Data Solutions, will discuss how data drives variable video messaging. His company provides the PersoniCom™ variable media services that deliver a highly personalized video or voice message unique to each recipient. Variable Video Messaging is the delivery of personalized and/or highly targeted, one-to-one video messages to customers, consumers, registered users, shareholders or any end-user message recipient. By leveraging best Big Data practices in... Read More
At 12:10 pm on Thursday May 8, 2014, Dr. Phil Shelley, President of Newton Park Partners LLC (NPP) will present “The Enterprise Data Hub, an Emerging Concept.” Dr. Shelley will discuss how to establish an Enterprise Data Hub and how to move from legacy to noSQL, Hadoop and other new analytics tools; bringing real-time and near real-time analytics with new approaches to data management. We asked him a few questions about NPP, why choose a... Read More
From 1 pm to 5 pm on Tuesday May 6, 2014, the Center for Risk Management at Loyola University’s Quinlan School of Business is presenting “Translating Big Data into Business Decisions.” The goal of the event is to highlight how the value of Big Data is not derived solely from statistics, but from an established business process that requires sound managerial judgment to guide the analytics. This process is what allows managers to leverage their... Read More
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Inside Big Data Week Chicago 2014: Two Brothers Share a Passion for Data, and a Model for Change
Kamal and Siraj Tahir are two brothers who share a passion for data. Each is a data professional in their respective countries; Kamal in Chicago, IL and Siraj in London, England. Both are presenting during Big Data Week in Chicago 2014. But they’re doing it with a twist. Their two-part presentation is called: “The Big Data Revolution is Expensive. Re-evolving Your Data is Not. Here’s Why.” Kamal is presenting Part 1 from Chicago at 10... Read More
An Official Big Data Week festival event. Join us on 7th May, at University College London, where the Big Data Week London team will host and chair a day of case studies, presentations, community showcases and debates with the UK data Community. We’ll have a community segment to the day, with speakers from across all the UK Data Meetup communities speaking about their passion and making this an interactive day for all. Whether you’re a... Read More
Co-founder of Big Data Week, Ande Gregson, will be one of the many competitors joining the annual gathering in Morocco in the Sahara desert for the Marathon des Sables in April 2014: A six-day, 250k self sufficient ultra marathon, which is the equivalent of six regular marathons, considered to be the toughest foot race on Earth. However, unlike most of the competitors, he’ll be using a number of wearable devices to measure his physiological attributes... Read More