Data is the lifeblood of computing and business. Without it, there would be no way to create projections, predictions, or insights about the behavior of markets and customers. However, it can be difficult to understand and work with if you …
The real value of data analytics goes beyond just telling you what happened or what will happen, but what you should do about it Whether it’s a hurricane that creates a need to reroute products to stores where they are …
If you visit New York City’s 4 World Trade Center, ride the elevator upstairs, you’ll behold a truly remarkable sight: barely anyone there. Taking over 16 floors of the massive office tower, Spotify is no longer requiring their staff to …
Many leaders at tech companies spent decades relying mostly on guesswork, assumptions and experience when making decisions. Now that big data solutions are so readily available, it’s easier to get confirmation of trends and feel more confident about how to …
In the current marketplace, data is one of the biggest resources available to businesses. While understanding this is important, you also need to know how to use data to the advantage of your company. Data analysis is one of the …
Chief Data Officer (CDO) positions have become increasingly commonplace in enterprises and other organizations during the past 17 years. Capital One and Yahoo! both appointed CDOs around 2002. A 2013 Gartner study found that over 100 companies employed CDOs—more than …
IBM’s CDO Summit and the Value of Data-Driven Enterprises Read More »
By Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang How intelligent is your company about your customer? Do you know enough about them in order to create a personalized customer experience? Understanding your customer through deep intelligence enables you to drive the right …
Three Steps to Monetizing Your Data through Customer Intelligence Read More »
Data visualization is a rapidly expanding way to work with data that involves representing the information through charts, graphs and other visual offerings. It provides particular value to business leaders who want to make sense of their data and track …
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Ask any security manager how they currently analyze cyber security data. Chances are they’ll describe a mad dash of manual efforts that involve pulling volumes of disparate data together for either ad-hoc requests coming from upper management, or quarterly reports …
The Great Reporting Burden: Why Security Managers Struggle with Analyzing Silos of Data Read More »
A recurring claim at security conferences is that “security is a big data / machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI) problem”. This is unfortunately wildly optimistic, and wrong in general. While certain security problems can be addressed by ML/AI …
Machine learning is cybersecurity’s latest pipe dream Read More »
