Sole use of the term “Big Data” when describing analytics can be misleading. I see “Big Data” as collected raw material. That raw material isn’t always a huge amount of data from a single source, but can be many different data sets from different resources. The “Internet of Things”would be…
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This is the third and final installment of our Big Data blog series focusing on audio and visual portrayals of information. To quickly sum up, the first two focused on how humans communicate Big Data through the eyes of a business technology Eco- system. The first blog and second blog spoke to a formal…
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This is the second blog of a three part blog series on Big Data Eco-systems. As a quick refresher, last week we connected business-technology domains through a hierarchical set of business terms along with a series of visualizations representing a 24 hour stream of continuous sensor data. This week’s example, “The…
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A little known initiative called XDATA has spawned a collection of technologies that could bring advances to the world of Big Data. The program is funded by the sometimes mysterious, sometimes fanciful DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). In this case, it looks like DARPA’s imaginings could bring some tangible benefits to the real…
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