The Brain & a Consulting Giant. Facebook: Monetize the Like Button. Dell Social Business Strategy - The Secret Sauce. Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. Hyde Park Daily. Let Big Data Predictive Analytics Rock Your World. I love predictive analytics.
I mean, who wouldn't want to develop an application that could help you make smart business decisions, sell more stuff, make customers happy, and avert disasters. Predictive analytics can do all that, but it is not easy. In fact, it can range from being impossible to hard depending on: Causative data. The lifeblood of predictive analytics is data. Ambitious Application Developers Can Learn This Application development teams can differentiate themselves from their code-only peers by using predictive analytics to develop smarter apps. Good stuff. Bain & Company: Net Promoter® System - Net Promoter System Home - Bain & Company. Business Execution Blog. Private Equity Fund & Investment News.
Adobe Unleashes Predictive Analytics on Big Data Complexity - Application Development. SALT LAKE CITYAdobe Systems (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced new predictive marketing capabilities in its Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, reducing the complexity of uncovering hidden behavioral patterns in big data.
Announced at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit here, these advancements will help marketers more quickly sort through an increasing amount of data to find the most impactful insights as well as leverage vast amounts of historical data to predict future results, said Brad Rencher, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Marketing Business at Adobe. Adobe is putting predictive analytics and more intelligent, forward-looking decision-making into the hands of digital marketers. The Big Lie About Big Data. When Do You need All the Data for Big Analytics? BIG Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, and Visualizations: Top ... Mobile Internet Use Surges To 59% Of Adults. According to the latest Pew study, 59% of all American adults are accessing the Internet and Web applications wirelessly, up from 51% a year ago.
My father, age 62, recently bought his first smartphone. He dumped the feature phone he'd been using the last two years and went with an HTC Droid Incredible on Verizon Wireless' network. He's but one more addition to the growing population of smartphone users who are frequently accessing data and applications from their devices wirelessly. Pew Research Center notes that now 59% of adults in the U.S. are using wireless technology in one form or the other. Pew's definition of "going wireless" includes using Wi-Fi from a laptop or using mobile IM, email, or a mobile browser from a cell phone.
Pew polled users to see exactly what it is they are doing with their devices. Notable is that young adults aged 18 to 29 are the heaviest users of mobile services. More Insights. Vertica SoCal Meetup-Featuring Syncsort and Guest Speaker Zynga! - Vertica Professionals, SoCal area (Ventura, CA. February 16, 2012 · 6:00 PM Let's get together and discuss Big Data.
John Krsteski unveils the Hyundai Nuvis hybrid concept. There are no lines on or in this car that are standing still.”
John Krsteski, Hyundai design manager, introduced the Hyundai Nuvis concept at the 2009 New York auto show. “One of the coolest attributes of Nuvis is that the protective roof appears to float on top of the body through the use of hidden pillars and high-contrast glass,” said Andre Hudson, Hyundai senior designer. Wimbledon, Big Data and Business Intuition.
IBM SecondSight is being used at Wimbledon to track how players move on the court.
Measuring and tracking balls and players in any dimension with real time analytics, its goal is to add a new dimension to understanding the science of tennis. Image courtesy of Flickr user IBM. There has been more than intuition, skill and experience at play during this opening week of Wimbledon. The most iconic court in the world — Centre Court — is queuing up some interesting analytics that are designed to help fans, commentators, coaches and players better understand — and virtually interact with — this Grand Slam tennis tournament.
No More Résumés, Say Some Firms. Predictive data analytics is saving lives and taxpayer dollars in New York City. City governments, faced with decreased resources after the Great Recession and rising citizen demand for services with increased urbanization, must be able to make better decisions that are informed by data.
To put it another way, in 2012, mayors need to start playing Moneyball in government with evidence-based analysis. Predictive Analytics: When Big Data and Predictive Analytics Collide. Big Data is usually defined in terms of Volume, Variety and Velocity (the so called 3 Vs).
Volume implies breadth and depth, while variety is simply the nature of the beast: on-line transactions, tweets, text, video, sound, ... Velocity, on the other hand, implies that data is being produced amazingly fast (according to IBM, 90% of the data that exists today was generated in the last 2 years), but that it also gets old pretty fast.
In fact, a few data varieties tend to age quicker than others. To be able to tackle Big Data, systems and platforms need to be robust, scalable, and agile. It is in this context that IntelliFest 2012 came to be. Dr. Abstract: Predictive analytics has been used for many years to learn patterns from historical data to literally predict the future.