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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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Periscope Data Expands to Israel, Empowering Data Teams with Powerful Tools

Sisense

We hosted over 150 people from more than 100 companies, who gathered to learn why data can supercharge their companies and how harnessing the huge power of data can take business from startup to unicorn. Scott whisked us through the history of business intelligence from its first definition in 1958 to the current rise of Big Data.