Category: Big Data

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

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Going Long with Big Data

Applied mathematician and network scientist Samuel Arbesman, a senior scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, offers a unique

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Big Trouble for Big Data, Part 2

In previous posts about big data and targeted marketing, I have repeatedly pointed out that the elephant in the room is not Hadoop but issues involving privacy and access to consumer information.

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Big Trouble for Big Data, Part 1

Ray Gallagher reports that defense contractor Raytheon “has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.” [“Software that tracks people on

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The Future of Big Data, Part 3

In Part 2 of this series, I discussed some thoughts on the future of big data offered by marketing technologist Scott Brinker. He wrote that the “big leap” for marketing companies will

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The Future of Big Data, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the views of several pundits who believe that big data has been overhyped, is descending into disillusionment, and should be done away with as

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The Future of Big Data, Part 1

Big Data is getting plenty of attention nowadays. Too much attention according to some pundits. In fact, some pundits believe that there is a Big Data bubble that is going to burst.

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The Benefits of Big Data

Rick Neil from Percepture directed me to a great infographic (shown below) that was created by neolane (www.neolane.com). The infographic is entitled “Transforming Big Data into Actionable Insight.” In my discussions about

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Big Data and Semantics

“Perhaps when it comes to natural language processing and related fields,” writes Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira, “we’re doomed to complex theories that will never have the elegance of physics

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Big Data and Targeted Marketing

The Financial Times recently ran a special report entitled Decoding Big Data. Authors of the report, Paul Taylor, Caroline Nevitt and Katie Carnie, write, “As more people connect to the internet, the

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Datasharing is Big Business

You would have to be technically illiterate or remarkably naive not to know that your online activity is being tracked by almost every site you visit. In an interesting series of articles,

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