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There is little doubt in anyone’s mind that big data is the key to business growth and success these days. This is exactly why over half of businesses have incorporated the futuristic technology into their daily practices. However, to SMBs, big data analytics still...

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to steer operations in the 21st century, numerous challenges are coming to light. While the IoT still has the potential to transform business for owners, employees and customers alike, those who already embrace this next-gen...

Finding out the difference between data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and statisticians can be confusing and complicated. While all of them are linked to data in a way, there is an underlying difference between the work they do and manage. The growth...

The rapid pace of technological innovation and the sudden emergence of Big Data has left a lot of marketers feeling left behind.  In less than a generation, the marketing industry has shifted in a way nearly unprecedented in its entire history.  It has gone from a...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the most widely used enterprise cloud data storage system, successfully competing against similar services from the likes of Microsoft and Google. In this article, we look at what AWS offers and outlines how enterprises can...

eCommerce opened the boundaries of traditional trade and enabled entrepreneurs to reach target audience anywhere in the world. It gave rise to the plethora of new businesses but also made everyone wonder – who is my average buyer and what do I know about this person?...

Big data has proven to be more than just a buzzword floating around the business-world. The industry has continued to grow at a rapid pace, and the global big data market is expected to hit over $40 billion in 2018. More and more companies in multiple sectors and...

It is evident that big data is a potential game changer for any business that wants to stay ahead of its competitors. For instance, companies that use big data provide better customer care services, more efficient targeted ads, and stronger business relationships than...

The cloud industry is evolving rapidly, offering every year innovative and more affordable solutions for companies and individuals. At the moment, one of the trending topics in the business technology world is the fusion of Software-as-a-Service systems with the use...

Big Data is an umbrella term which encompasses all sorts of data which exists today. From hospital records and digital data to the overwhelming amount of government paperwork which is archived - there is more to it than we officially know. You can’t categorize Big...

Analytics has been a well-known strategy to identify opportunities, streamline work, and take decisions. Almost all businesses in some form or other make use of analytics. The scheduled annual appraisals in a company is a simple example of analytics usage. While usage...

Employee data tracking—sounds like a lot of extra work, right? How do you keep tabs on employee data for more productivity, better bookkeeping, and safer employees? Your employees generate a lot of data and using data tools for your business just makes sense. There...

With connected smart devices expecting to number in the billions over the next few years, the Internet of Things is becoming a major factor in consumer expectations and business planning. The IoT is impacting our lives more than you may realize. The following list was...

Mobile devices have quickly reached the top of the list as the most popular platform to browse the web on. Mobile phones are cheaper than purchasing a desktop (especially in developing countries who weren’t a part of the desktop dominated phase) and mobile devices are...

It’s an obvious, well-known fact that data and business go hand in hand. You can’t manage one without affecting the other. And whether you’re analyzing a client’s data or using your company’s data to make executive decisions, your tools have to be able to handle the...

Elasticsearch is a popular big data search engine based on Apache Lucene and it does not really need a big introduction because of its popularity. This blog will try to answer your questions regarding data recovery in case you have a corrupt index. While it is not...

Predictive data is quickly changing the way that we work in a variety of industries, and the automotive world is no exception. From connected car production to inventory management, the collection and study of large amounts of data are quickly shaping how our cars are...

The amount of data being collected and stored globally is inconceivable and it grows as we speak. The end result is “big data.” As the term implies, big data is used to denote large sets of structured or unstructured data.  However, the large volume isn’t what makes...

In the Digital age today, world has become smaller and faster. Global audio & video calls which were available only in corporate offices, are now available to common man on the smartphone. Consumers have more information of the products and comparison than the...

What are you doing right now? If you are trying to know how data analytics can help you grow your business, you are not alone. Research suggest that as much as 55% of companies are rapidly searching for and engaging in some form of data analytics to get a hold of what...

As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, has our reliance on big data been exposed? On the eve of the US election, the Huffington Post presidential forecast gave Hillary Clinton a 98.2 percent chance of winning the race to the White House. The Huffington...

The term Big Data is more than 20 years old, having been coined in 2005 by O’Reilly Media’s Roger Magoulas. What we mean by the term scales larger by the minute, seemingly, since more than 80% of all available data has been generated in the last three years as Big...

The market is flooded with a number of Big Data tools. All of them claim to provide real business value by bringing cost efficiency, better time management, and analyzing data to discover valuable business insights. But there are only a select few that actually do...

The importance of data in today’s business is difficult to overstate because no meaningful decision can be made without the analysis of relevant data. The data analysis not only drives the decision making but also takes an active part in developing strategies and...

The name edge computing signifies the corner or edge in a network diagram at which traffic enters or exits the network. Edge computing pushes computing power to the edges of a network, so instead of devices like drones or smart traffic lights needing to call home for...

Gone are the days when we used to carry big fat wallet filled with cash, coins, multiple credit cards, business cards, travel tickets, movie tickets, personal notes, papers with names, numbers and the list can go on. Mobile technologies have transformed the way we...

They say that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. In no form of big data analysis is this phrase more relevant than in 'predictive analytics'. In simple terms, predictive analytics is the systematic use of data, machine learning techniques and a...

Over the past months, I have read a great deal about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how companies are moving forward with it. Looking across all the stories on the web it is clear that there is an IoT Continuum when you look at the different types of projects out...

Project management always comes with a set of various challenges. In the past couple of years, as businesses have significantly grown, project management has become even more complicated. On the other side of things, a variety of software solutions were created for...

Databases. They are not just confined to big business. Remember that rogue traffic warden, who gave you a parking ticket thirty seconds before your time was up? Remember that customer service agent, who was rude and unhelpful to you over the phone? Remember that...

As if the Internet of Things (IoT) was not complicated enough, the Marketing team at Cisco introduced its Fog Computing vision in January 2014, also known as Edge Computing for other more purist vendors. Given Cisco´s frantic activity in their Internet of Everything...

By now you are probably aware that the customer journey is fractured among any number of channels and devices. Multi-device and multi-channel journeys take twists and turn as consumers move from one channel to the next and back again, and may start off on one device...

The Digital Tsunami is moving at a rapid pace, encompassing all aspects of business and society. It touches every function of business from purchasing, finance, human resources, operations, IT and technology, sales and marketing and every other division in the...

If you wanted to program a computer in the early 1980s, you didn’t have the option of coding using a keyboard. You had to create a series of cards, each punched with a pattern of holes. The holes had to be entirely accurate, in both pattern and placement. A typical...

Data is everywhere. All businesses have access to it. Yet, turning data into actionable insights and becoming a data-driven business can be difficult to achieve. What does data-driven mean? A data-driven business utilizes data to inform every business decision they...

There is no doubt that data analytics is the most favored method for extracting viable and venerable insights out of data volumes. There are a continuous accumulation and storage of poly-structured data due to the unprecedented increase in different and distributed...

For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords across all industries. Big data is the term used to describe the process of analyzing complex data sets to discover information that can help make better decisions or find certain patterns that were previously...

They say we are living in the age of information. The internet has made it easy for anyone to gather whatever information they need to achieve whatever end they desire. Did you know that you could even learn how to build your own car online? Did you know that you...

Data management is one of the most important tasks for any modern business. Businesses need to analyze and inspect the data to find out the consumer demands and the best ways to meet these. Managing the huge amount of data requires a specialized solution. And Document...

This is the first in a multi-part series on launching successful data products. At Juice, we’ve helped our clients launch dozens of data products that generate new revenue streams, differentiate their solutions in the market and build stronger customer relationships....

All businesses are at the mercy of data quality challenges. From the moment you capture your first lead, you’ll be fighting a battle against data decay. The bigger the database gets, the more problems the business can encounter, and it isn’t easy to single out a...

Whatever your business sector, data is your most valuable asset. Along with the machinery and stock you hold, data and insights hold the key to profit and growth. But it has the unique ability to unite every department, and every function. It can reveal problems in...

The rise of big data systems is primarily driven by web-based application paradigms for the B2C market. The growth of B2B solutions delivered through web-based application models is driving a few shifts in enterprise architecture. It is as much about the convergence...

“Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight...

In every data analysis, putting the analysis and the results into a comprehensible report is the final, and for some, the biggest hurdle. The goal of a technical report is to communicate information. However, the technical information is difficult to understand...

Twitter is a great source of information, and lets you quickly scan your feed and engage with content that intrigues you. Even though this eliminates a lot of unnecessary noise, you need to follow the right people, if you are on a constant lookout for great...

Visual design in big data systems has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. It is mainly driven by the emergence of tactile interfaces in UI and the trends in information systems design architecture. The rise of mobile-first designs helped fuse these...

Fresh data is usually pristine. It’s data in it’s clearest, most accurate form – straight from the customer or client. If you’ve put measures in place to cut back on data input errors, such as form validation, you can be reasonably sure that the newest records in your...

While socializing with my partner (something that will abruptly stop for a while after the imminent birth of my second child), when I tell people that I recruit for Big Data & Data Science professionals, their reactions vary from a vacant, glazed look in their...

There's a lot of hype in the business communities about data, analytics, cloud technologies, data science, and e-commerce. A cornucopia of jargon that emphasizes data (raw material) and its analytics spinoff (the service). Or is it emphasizing business? What came...

I took an Uber taxi ride last week to Indiranagar (Bangalore). My car was at the garage for repairs and I had a digital wallet balance to consume. The cab was a brand new Maruti Swift Dzire, and I was concerned that the man behind the wheel was just as new to driving!...

There are two major developments tellingly touching and transforming the lives of people across the globe. The first one is that there is an unprecedented growth in data getting generated, garnered, and stored (data volume) followed by a significant increase in data...

This is the sixth instalment in the series of essays on Statistics Denial by Randy Bartlett, Ph.D. To read other articles in the series, click here. Myth #2: Statisticians (and other quants), work within 'traditional statistics’ The myth that statisticians only...

In this post, I will walk you through an example on how we can choose a concept, extract what users write about this concept on Twitter, get insights on how consumers think/behave about it and finally group similar consumer thoughts and experiences using Cluster...

This is the fifth instalment in the series of essays on Statistics Denial by Randy Bartlett, Ph.D. To read other articles in the series, click here. “You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.” ― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science...

This is the fourth instalment in the series of essays on Statistics Denial by Randy Bartlett, Ph.D. To read other articles in the series, click here. "I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians" — Hal Varian "I keep saying that...

This is the second instalment in the series of essays on Statistics Denial by Randy Bartlett, Ph.D. To read other articles in the series, click here. There is a flood of statistical malfeasance heading this way. We are going to see more statistics debacles, like those...

UFO sightings, where do they all come from? Astronomers spend an inordinate amount of time scouring the skies. However, as far as we know, no credentialed astronomer has ever reported a UFO. None, zilch. Statistics denial myths, where do they all come from? We have...

Big data is the big buzzword these days. Big data refers to a collection of data sets or information too large and complex to be processed by standard tools. It is the art and science of combining enterprise data, social data, and machine data to derive new insights,...

"The nonstatistician cannot always recognize a statistical problem when he sees one." — W. Edwards Deming "The key element for a successful (big) data analytics and data science future is statistical rigor and statistical thinking of humans." — Diego Kuonen For...

Among the new faces making their debut on the Forbes 2015 billionaires list are a growing number who have made their fortunes from Big Data. These Big Data billionaires are at the top of their game – all of them have built empires on their ability to collect,...

In today’s world, almost any information you could ever want to learn is now available for free or very cheap to anyone with a computer. Meanwhile, in the Western world, higher education (as with most industries that are primarily run by governments) is continuously...

Some 16 odd years ago, Google made search engines famous and ubiquitous. It’s sell-by date has come. Think about it. Search was the greatest thing in the world because it achieved Google’s wonderful vison of ‘organising the world’s information’. But now… what is the...

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker It is only when you reflect on your experiences do they translate into learning. And so, having been in the technology space for close to three...

Capturing data-related opportunities to improve revenues and productivity requires not only new talent and investments in information infrastructure but also significant changes in the mind-sets and frontline training. For organizations that are just starting into Big...

Web analytics tools are used by online businesses and market researchers to collect and measure web traffic data for the purpose of understanding and improving the effectiveness of a website. The most commonly used metrics in web analytics reports are: unique...

It's almost 450 years since Nostradamus wrote his best-seller, 'Les Propheties, and gave everyone sleepless nights ever since. What predictions would he make today about Big Data in the 2015-2020 era? Prediction#1: The oppression "The hapless consumer will be troubled...