Here is a graphic I put together to show the top 20 vendors by Big Data Revenue and added the % of Total Revenue which is interesting in that you see immediately vendors like Opera Solutions, Splunk, and Mu Sigma where their entire bottom line is Big Data but more than anything this shows that [...]
If you know anything about the realm of Data Science and all its buzz around the web it’s very likely you also know about the study that I commented on from McKinsey (Big data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity).
As the Beatles so perfectly stated…”You say you want a Revolution…well… you know…” and I would even go on to say that we are all about to change the world. With Big Data we are indeed going to change the world. Many times it takes just a few innovative and [...]
A report came out from The McKinsey Global Institute on the topic of “Big Data”. In their report they state “The amount of data in our world has been exploding. Companies capture trillions of bytes of information about their customers, suppliers, and operations, and millions of networked sensors are being embedded in the physical world [...]
1. Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
This is a great post on collecting data and gives some great tools as well as guides on how to scrape data from various formats such as PDF and HTML
InformationWeek’s Paul McDougall published an interesting article last week about Microsoft and Big Data. Here is a short excerpt:
“The software maker unveiled the initiative, known as Project Daytona, at its Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., this week. The service was developed under the Microsoft extreme computing group’s Cloud Research Engagement [...]
What is Big Data?
According to IBM – Everyday, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data–so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: from sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites,
A article written by Ted Sapountzis called “Big Data: What can an energy company teach us about data science?” has some interesting input on the emerging field of Data Scientists as well as Big Data. In the article Sapountzis writes:
We are all data scientists – Most of the innovation that is [...]
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