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Big Data Analytics: Finally Getting Answers to the Crunchy Questions

By Dick Weisinger

Global Big Data Analytics reached a market size of $3.2 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach $15.1 billion by 2020, based on a study by research analysts at Frost & Sullivan.  The market includes specialized segments on discovery and

Big Data and Storage: Will Storage Costs Constrain Big Data Growth?

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is putting strains on businesses trying to find the storage space to house all the new data that’s being collected. A survey by Tarmin today found that 66 percent of businesses say that they’re under pressure to store increasingly huge

Big Data: The Role of the Data Engineer in Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

As businesses begin to take advantage of big data and associated data-driven technologies, there is an increasing demand to fill roles within companies that are focused on managing and analyzing data.  Specifically, the roles that seem to have seen the

Big Data: Businesses Procrastinate with Data Lakes

By Dick Weisinger

Data silos have long been a nemesis of businesses trying to fully utilize the data which they collect.  Recently ‘data lakes’ have been proposed as a solution for eliminating the silos.  The data lake is an aggregate of data with

Big Data: Insights into Crowd Thinking and Cashing in on the Stock Market

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at the Warwick Business School have found a connection between search engine trends and real life decision making.  The results are similar to earlier research that tries to predict the scale of the outbreak of the flu or the popularity