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Waiting For Godot: Developing Competitive Differentiation
I’m always a bit confused when organizations struggle to differentiate between technology investments to achieve competitive parity, versus those technology investments that can create unique,...
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The Key to Creating Great Consumer-Grade Mobile & Web Apps
I’ve always wondered what the term “consumer-grade apps” really meant, as it’s really starting to come into prominence with the explosion of mobile apps. So I thought I’d better learn more about what...
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Consumer-Grade Applications That Work and Why
In my prior blog “The Keys to Creating Great Consumer-grade Apps,” I discussed what was meant by the term “consumer-grade apps.” I said that good consumer-grade apps were: Figure 1: Chipotle Smartphone...
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Economics and Big Data – A Match Made In Heaven?
I’ve said many times that I think there is an important role that folks with an economics background can play in the world of Big Data. Maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part to believe that I can find...
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Bringing Art to the Community with Big Data
When Maxwell Anderson[1] took over as director of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) two years ago, he told the board he wanted to offer free membership to anyone willing to share some personal data....
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Monetizing the “Long Tail” with Big Data
In a recent meeting, a client started talking about strategies for “monetizing the long tail.” I found this very provocative, so I started to think about where and how one would leverage Big Data to...
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Combining User Experience and Data Analytics to Accelerate Third-Platform...
I recently experienced first-hand the importance of involving the user experience (UEX) team at the start of the application development process. We were chartered with developing an application that...
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Big Data Technologies and Advancements in Healthcare
In August of 1854 there was a severe cholera outbreak in the Soho district of London. Within a month, several hundred people perished. Unable to ascertain the cause physician, John Snow, decided to...
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Big Data Is A Game Changer
I spoke recently at the Gaming Technology Conference in Las Vegas, and instead of sharing my slides with the many folks who asked for them, I thought I’d just share my slides and messages with everyone...
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Gaining an Unfair Advantage with Big Data and Analytics
I’m surprised at how many organizations are still having trouble understanding the differences between business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics. Well, Step 1 in the Big Data transformation is...
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5 Ways the Internet of Things Drives New $$$ Opportunities
BOOM!! That’s a sonic explosion caused by the explosive growth of data in the digital universe. The EMC Digital Universe Study – with research and analysis by IDC – highlights this data eruption with a...
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Point-Counterpoint: Eight (No, Nine!) Problems with Big Data
The New York Times recently published an article titled “Eight (No, Nine!) Problems with Big Data.” This is my rebuttal, or better yet Point-Counterpoint, for all you old school Saturday Night Live...
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Importance of Metadata in a Big Data World
Last week, EMC announced the 2014 EMC Digital Universe, a study with IDC that details what the Digital Universe will look like in 2020 and the opportunities it presents. One of the interesting...
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Beware Simpson’s Paradox
When I first heard of the “Simpson’s Paradox,” I immediately thought of my favorite TV show, The Simpsons. I thought the paradox had to about how Homer Simpson deals with the challenges he faces in...
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How I’ve Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Data Lake
I have to admit that I’ve struggled with the term “Data Lake.” I first heard the term used in 2010 in some marketing collateral about Hadoop from Pentaho (“Pentaho, Hadoop, and Data Lakes”) and was...
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4 Ms of Big Data: Make Me More Money!!
This is Part 1 of a 5-Part series. Be sure to check back here on InFocus next Wednesday, 5/7, for the next installment. I first introduced the concept of the “4 Ms” of Big Data (“Make Me More Money”)...
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Replicating the Human Brain… Better Be Careful
A recent article in the San Jose Mercury titled “Google, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop artificial intelligence” talks about the race underway between high tech companies to...
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The Big Data MBA: Updating A Living Document
I’ve updated the mapping of my recent blogs to chapters in my book “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Business.” I want to ensure that the book is a living document where I could easily share...
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Monetizing the Internet of Everything at Cisco Live!
On Wednesday, May 21, between 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., I will be taking the stage at Cisco Live! as part of a keynote presentation titled “The Internet of Everything Ecosystem—Bringing IT and OT...
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Save the Ugly Baby: the Pixar Success Story
A recent article from Fast Company titled “Your Ideas Are “Ugly Babies,” You Are Their Champion” talks about how Pixar nurtures creativity in the production of their many successful animation movies....
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