What is the Question?
The answer I’m sure is innovation.
Practically the first thing to do is figure out the questions to ask. Don’t stick to just questions that are hanging out there already needing to be answered, but create new questions that …
The answer I’m sure is innovation.
Practically the first thing to do is figure out the questions to ask. Don’t stick to just questions that are hanging out there already needing to be answered, but create new questions that …
What we primarily look for in data is to make sense of it – find summaries and statistics to help inform analytical decision-making or discover patterns and stories creating new insights into the larger world behind the data.
This should …
Taken together, the V-word characteristics of Big Data both identify and shape the kinds of innovative solutions that can be created from Big Data opportunities. These solutions will tend to provide intelligence more than absolute truth.
There are lots of definitions of Big Data. Most of them are fuzzy marketing speak along the lines of “Big Data is just bigger than your old data, too big to deal with the same way you dealt with …
Your life so far has been a big data trail for someone else to mine.
Google took what was essentially crumbs of data left by millions (billions?) of people as they navigated around the internet, compiled and analyzed it into …
Despite bigger and bigger data, the world is a small place and it is full of people. Increasingly networked people. I like Clay Shirky’s thinking in Here Comes Everybody about new ways people online can gather and form loose communities …