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Big Data Beat Up: Backlash Attacks on the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

After considerable positive hype, the skirmishes and attacks against Big Data technology have begun. On the one hand there are those that either say we don’t need Big Data or that Big Data isn’t really anything different than standard data

Big Data and Federal Health Care: Data Analytics can be More Powerful than Penicillin

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data technologies are slowing being rolled out and experimented with by federal health care agencies to help improve patient care. Steve O’Keeffe, founder of MeriTalk, said that “forty-seven percent of ‘feds’ say the successful use of mHealth technologies and

Data Quality: Poor Quality Threatens the Usability of Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

The National Audit Office in the UK recently found major problems in data quality that threaten a new £1 billion MoD inventory management system. But the UK MoD is not alone with data quality problems.  A report by Teksystems found

Big Data: Enabler for Better and Quicker Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

60 percent of businesses are investigating the use of Big Data to help them improve the quality of their decisions.  53 percent said that the ability to make quicker decisions was their principle motivator for implementing the technology, In a

Big Data: The Art of Data Science

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data methodologies and data analytics are increasingly being talked about and applied by organizations for solving problems and assisting with the making of decisions.  The main problem at this point ofthe technology cycle is though that while the tools