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Why performers should embrace Big Data
Why performers should embrace Big Data

Chris Karloff, the former guitarist for punk rock band Kasabian, left the band in 2006 while the band was recording one of their most successful records: Empire. Karloff felt that the band just didn’t have the right presence and if it were just a personal matter of...

Book Publishing’s Big Data Future
Book Publishing’s Big Data Future

The publishing industry is not one of the overachievers in terms of its use of big data. And since my book on big data—Big Data @ Work—is out, I thought it might be fun to speculate on what big data will do to the business of publishing books. The goal of any...

When Big Data Met Porn
When Big Data Met Porn

In his 1987 book The Secret Museum, Walter Kendrick explored the many ways that technology transforms pornography. Technological innovations—the advent of the printing press, the rise of the home video camera, the widespread adoption of the VCR—changed the way, he...