25 Must Know Big Data Terms
Big Data can be intimidating! If you are new to Big Data, please read ‘What is Big Data’, ‘Who coined Big Data’ to get you started. With the basic concepts under your belt, let’s focus on some key terms to impress your date or boss or family. By the way, I am putting together a much […]
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Solutions
The promise of Big Data is in analytics and how companies can derive business intelligence to help them make data-driven decisions. A data-driven culture in organizations requires investments in people, processes, and technology. Even though technology alone will not answer all questions, I have to admit that recent advances in Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics […]
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Data Mining Tutorials
Following are some really good data mining tutorials that we have curated from all around the web. Step by Step Tutorial from Tutorial Point. A PDF version is available for purchase but step by step tutorial is free on their web. Introduction to Data Mining by Dr. Kurt Thearling. Fairly comprehensive tutorial covering technical details, […]
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Data Strategy – What, Why, When, Who, Where
What is data Strategy? I’d like to use couple of statistics from IDG’s Enterprise 2016 Data & Analytics Research to start this article. As per their research, 78% of enterprises agree that collection & analysis of big data has the potential to fundamentally change the way their company does business over the next 1 to […]
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Edge Analytics – What, Why, Who, When, Where, How
As I have written extensively before, the primary purpose of any data you collect or manage is to derive actionable insights from that data using various types of data analytics. A casual browsing on data analytics will tell you that there are 4 types of data analytics and they are: Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive […]
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Data Mining Courses
Our curation of the best data mining courses that you can find on the web. KDNuggets has an excellent Data mining Course at this link. This course is from Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro of KDNuggets and Prof. Gary Parker of Connecticut college. What we like the best about the course is that it assumes that students […]
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What Is Big Data?
When I first heard the term Big Data few years ago, I didn’t think much of it. Soon after, Big Data started appearing in many of my conversations with many of my tech friends. So when I met this Mr. Know It All consultant, I asked him ‘What is Big Data?’. He looked at me […]
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Who Came Up With The Name Big Data?
Big Data has truly come of age in 2013 when Oxford English Dictionary introduced the term “Big Data” for the first time in its dictionary. That of course begs the question ‘When was the term Big Data first used and Why?’. My curiosity led me to lot of research material but I relied mostly on […]
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Master Data Management (MDM) Key Definitions
Master Data Management (MDM) as a practice has been around for at least a decade but still there is plenty of confusion about what it means and why it is important. It is important to get grounded on what is Master Data and what is Master Data Management (MDM) before we dig into why it […]
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Data Strategy Components
In this series on Data Strategy, we covered 5 ‘W’s of Data Strategy and ‘How To Deliver Data Strategy In 4 Steps’. In this article, we’ll cover the various components of Data Strategy. I believe that Data Strategy document should include all or at least some of these components: Background / Context: This section should […]
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