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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a more important role than ever in fine-tuning the relationship between customers and brands. The Complex Role Between Big Data and Social Listening Tools. million in Series B in 2010, and was quickly acquired by Twitter for $40 million in 2011.

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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

datapine

The saying “knowledge is power” has never been more relevant, thanks to the widespread commercial use of big data and data analytics. The rate at which data is generated has increased exponentially in recent years. Essential Big Data And Data Analytics Insights. million searches per day and 1.2

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

It includes perspectives about current issues, themes, vendors, and products for data governance. My interest in data governance (DG) began with the recent industry surveys by O’Reilly Media about enterprise adoption of “ABC” (AI, Big Data, Cloud). Data is on the move. We keep feeding the monster data.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? Data may be perfectly valid, but still not represent reality. It is hard to account for such tweaking in measurement systems.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

There is no longer always intentionality behind the act of data collection — data are not collected in response to a hypothesis about the world, but for the same reason George Mallory climbed Everest: because it’s there. But this does not mean that the slice will continue to exhibit an extreme value on this measurement in the future.

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Showpad accelerates data maturity to unlock innovation using Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

However, with 70 dashboards with over 1,000 visuals with varying levels of complexities, including proprietary logic unique to certain tools, and data from over 1,000 tables ingesting data from over 20 data sources, the team decided to take a measured approach to the migration.