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10 February 2013: The Guardian

Software That Tracks People on Social Media Created by Defence Firm Excerpt: A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about … Continue reading

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2 January 2013: Enterprise Apps Today

Big Data and Beyond: BI Trends for 2013 Experts interviewed by Enterprise Apps Today believe Big Data will remain the biggest trend in business intelligence for the foreseeable future. While Big Data is still an emerging concept, those using it … Continue reading

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31 December 2012: Computer Reseller News

HP Intros Big Data Solutions for Telcos Excerpt: HP Enterprise Services has introduced new telco big data and analytics solutions for communications service providers (CSPs) to manage, understand and act on massive amounts of information to deliver services to subscribers. Read … Continue reading

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27 December 2012: IT World

Life As We Know It Would Be Impossible Without Big Data Excerpt: You could do all of these things before our current era of big data. Booking flights, checking weather in distant locations, making phone calls, using a credit card, … Continue reading

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17 October 2012: Forbes

3 Big Data Insights from the Grandfather of Google Glass Excerpt: MIT Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland develops technology to measure, analyze and predict human behavior. Research of his own direct doing called Reality Mining uses data from cell … Continue reading

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15 October 2012: Datamation

Social Media vs. Big Data Analytics in US Presidential Election Excerpt: While a lot of folks are getting lost in the battle between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in what appears to be a race to prove who is least qualified to … Continue reading

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21 September 2012: Smart Company

What Executives Don’t Know About Big Data Excerpt: Although big data already is – and will continue to be – a relentless driver of revolutionary business change (just ask Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Larry Page or LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman), too many … Continue reading

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5 September 2012: Computerworld

Data for the Masses Excerpt: Big data analytics should be used for more than just financial gain; the power of data combined with good design can be used to convey complex information to the masses, says Jer Thorp, data artist in residence … Continue reading

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Poll Results Follow-up: Facebook IPO

In May we asked our readers: Facebook’s IPO launches this Friday. Using all the data you can find, in your opinion, how will the stock price trend in its first three months? Your responses at the time: Upward at the … Continue reading

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25 July 2012: ZDNet

Ensuring Data Quality Not Sexy But Critical to Biz Excerpt: Arun Chandrasekaran, research director at Gartner, said data quality, as a process and technology, identifies and manages the accuracy of business-critical data as well as corrects the flaw within the … Continue reading

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