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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" So what is big data really? As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. No one quite knows.

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IDC: FanRuan ranks No.1 in China’s BI market share in H1 2019

FineReport

The market share of advanced analytics and predictive analytics accounted for 27.2%. Wang Nan, IDC’s enterprise software market analyst in China, said, “In recent years, in the context of the industry’s digital transformation, enterprises are paying more and more attention to the value of data.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

You know, case in point, if you were to talk about predictive analytics 20 years ago, the main people in the field would have laughed you out of the room. Predictive analytics, yeah, not so much.” That leads to what Andrew Ng has famously called “the virtuous cycle of data.”