Some people seem conflicted about big data at the moment. On the one hand, excitement about the benefits of big data is at an all-time high. In the Analytics 2013 survey of 600 analytic professionals showed that 35% of companies were expanding their analytic investments because of big data. Big data represents a world of... Read More
When we hear the phrase ‘big data’ most of us think about the information and insight that can be gleaned from analysing the vast amounts of untapped data pools lying within our businesses. The industry is saturated with opinion about big data analysis in order to draw usable insights and ultimately aid customer retention or... Read More
The H(app)athon Project is an initiative that began in October of 2012 with a goal of quantifying happiness. I wrote an article on Mashable called, The Value of a Happiness Economy that compared Quantified Self, The Internet of Things (including Big Data) and Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness that provided a solution to improve well-being around the... Read More
Big data is now a commonly used term within the business world and many companies are implementing solutions to make the most of the untapped data within their systems. It’s no longer ‘new,’ but how businesses are choosing to use this data is changing. Beyond traditional uses of big data there are exciting ways for... Read More
The old saying “less is more” is arguably more relevant today than ever before. In an increasingly complex and noisy world, efficiently extracting meaning from the torrent of raw data presented to us every day is critical. One might assume that the more information you have, the better, but too much information can quickly become... Read More
It increasingly seems that everyone wishes to be ‘open.’ What we really mean by ‘open,’ however, is yet intriguingly unclear. Richard Stallman, one of the creative forces behind the free software movement, once aptly questioned the concept: in a hot room filled with enthusiastic advocates of ‘open’ the only thing he’d like to see opened was the... Read More