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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of. They now have a disruptive data management solution to offer to its client base.

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A Retrospective of 2018’s Articles

Peter James Thomas

Overall the total number of articles and new pages I published exceeded 2017’s figures to claim the second spot behind 2009; our first year in business. These are as follows: General Data Articles. Data Visualisation. Statistics & Data Science. Analytics & Big Data. Analytics & Big Data.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

In our modern architectures, replete with web-services, APIs, cloud-based components and the quasi-instantaneous transmission of new transactions, it is perhaps not surprising that occasionally some data gets lost in translation [5] along the way. Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there (2009). [7].

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Here we come back to the upward trend in searches for Data Science. It could be argued of course that this is yet another business fad (indeed some are speaking about Big Data in just those terms already [7] ), but I believe that there is more substance to the area than this. – McKinsey 2009. . [6].