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Security: If Businesses Could Better Share Threat Intelligence, They Could Reduce Risk of Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The needle is moving in the wrong direction when it comes to the frequency of data breaches which hit companies.  In 2014, Ponemon reports that 43 percent of businesses had suffered at least one significant data breach over the previous…

Data Quality: CIOs Pressured from Data Quality Issues

By Dick Weisinger

While Big Data and associated analytics software has gotten the attention of executives, far less attention has been given to the quality of the data that businesses are collecting and using for analysis.  The bromide “Garbage In, Garbage Out” (GIGO)…

Robots: Autonomous Robots Carrying Groceries Home Over the Last Mile

By Dick Weisinger

The next generation of home-delivery groceries may be made by robots.  While Amazon and Walmart are testing flying drones for delivery, a new company called Starships Technologies, is launching a land-based robot pickup and delivery service.  The company has developed…

Big Data Analytics: Fierce Competition Among Cloud-Based Analytics Tools

By Dick Weisinger

New cloud tools for analyzing and visualizing Big Data are being released almost weekly by the major cloud vendors.  For example, Google recently announced the launch of Cloud Datalab.  AWS has Amazon QuickSight, and SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce have similar…

Data Scientists and Programming: Speaking the Language of Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Python and R computing languages have become the two preferred languages among computer scientists.  R was developed by statisticians specifically for data analysis and comes with strong data visualization capabilities.  Python is a general-purpose scripting language with extensive libraries,…