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Big Data and Analytics: Advanced Analytics Still Mostly Done with Small Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

40 percent of large businesses are using advanced analytics today, but only half that number say that the type of analytics jobs that they run are driven by Big Data.    One third of businesses say that Big Data has

Big Data Analytics: Hadoop Grows a New Tech Economy — Hadooponomics

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data apps are increasingly being rolled out by businesses like Merck, Pfizer, GE, the Weather Channel and Facebook. Start talking about Big Data and many, if not most, people start thinking about about Hadoop.  Hadoop is an open source framework

Security: The Central Barrier that’s Blocking SMB Technology Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

How are businesses using technology and what challenges do businesses have that prevent them from adopting new technology? That’s the question asked recently by Dell in their first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI), a survey of how technology is being used

Big Data Analytics: Weighing Privacy and Ethical Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not only users that are worried about their privacy and how their electronic data is being used by businesses.  A survey of statisticians found that 91 percent said that consumers had good reason to be worried.  Further, 85 percent

Big Data: Concurrent CEO Suggests a Pragmatic View for Data Projects in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

Where will the Big Data industry be going in 2015? Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent, has published his list of predictions about the direction that Big Data will take. This is the second year in a row that Nakamura has