Can Big Data Raise Graduation Rates?
Can big data raise graduation rates? BY RICHARD NIEVA ON APRIL 9, 2013 Collecting data and…
Can big data raise graduation rates? BY RICHARD NIEVA ON APRIL 9, 2013 Collecting data and…
A number of my students have asked me about online privacy. Many of us, not…
I started this post to make a relative mundane point for UBC Management students about the importance of making their presentations easily understandable, particularly when they involve lots of numbers or spreadsheet data. But after mulling over the post for a few days, I realized that this is a much bigger story.
Call it whatever you want — big data, data science, data intelligence — but be prepared to have your mind blown. Imagination and technology are on a collision course that will change the world in profound ways. Some people say big data is wallowing in the trough of disillusionment, but that’s a limited worldview. If you only look at it like an IT issue it might be easy to see big data as little more than business intelligence on steroids. If you only see data science as a means to serving better ads, it might be easy to ask yourself what all the fuss is about. If you’re like me, though, all you see are the bright lights ahead. They might be some sort of data nirvana, or they might be a privacy-destroying 18-wheeler bearing down on us. They might be both. But we’re going to find out, and we’re we’re going to find out sooner rather than later. This is because there are small pockets of technologists who are letting their imaginations lead the way. In a suddenly cliché w
When it comes to using big data, there are still bottlenecks. Many of these are around the tools that people use to try to make sense of massive amounts of information.
What’s standing between your staff and big data analysis? That was the existential question posed of DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher at the GigaOM Structure:Dataevent today in New York. The two had different takes on how easy it was to give people the power to use data, with Hammerbacher, who is the co-founder of Cloudera, saying that it’s pretty simple today.
ToDaClo is a current buzz word of sorts for “touch-data-cloud,” (or Big Data, The Cloud…
I have been having a spirited marathon debate with a couple of my friends. Â Is…
This is the first in a series I will be posting on management education and…
Seven Reasons Why Big Data is Worth Shifting a Career For.