article thumbnail

Using Instagram Highlight Covers in Your Data-Driven Marketing Strategy

Smart Data Collective

Modern marketing strategies rely heavily on big data. Big data is even more important for companies that depend on social media marketing. Geoffrey Moore tweeted about this in 2012 when he said: “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.”.

article thumbnail

Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? The market was maturing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. May 2012: A senior member of HP’s Autonomy unit raises concerns about Autonomy’s accounting practices. Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” November 2012: HP takes an $8.8 billion or $11.7

Software 105
article thumbnail

How Marketing Campaigns Miss the Mark Without Data

Sisense

Marketing has many goals: to build creative, inspiring work that burrows its way into the minds and memories of consumers; to generate sales; to increase awareness of a company or product … the list goes on and on. After all, if you don’t know who you’re marketing to, what do you really know? Tip: Measure the metrics that matter.

article thumbnail

A Guide To The Methods, Benefits & Problems of The Interpretation of Data

datapine

In fact, a Digital Universe study found that the total data supply in 2012 was 2.8 Based on that amount of data alone, it is clear the calling card of any successful enterprise in today’s global world will be the ability to analyze complex data, produce actionable insights and adapt to new market needs… all at the speed of thought.

article thumbnail

Measure performance of AWS Glue Data Quality for ETL pipelines

AWS Big Data

AWS Glue Data Quality is built on DeeQu , an open source tool developed and used at Amazon to calculate data quality metrics and verify data quality constraints and changes in the data distribution so you can focus on describing how data should look instead of implementing algorithms.

article thumbnail

Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

Many businesses use different software tools to analyze historical data and past patterns to forecast future demand and trends to make more accurate financial, marketing, and operational decisions. The OBJECTIVE parameter specifies a metric to minimize or maximize the objective of a job. For more details, refer to AutoMLJobObjective.