Category: Big Data

  • Data Analytics Drive Modern Business

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    Ray Keefe
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    Data and Analytics Today, data is available for nearly everything you can think of. Or if it isn’t, then it isn’t hard to add new data sources, both internal and external to a business. But data alone isn’t the answer. It is what you do with it, learn from it and decide based on it that…

  • Predicting the Future

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    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…

  • IoT versus M2M

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    IoT versus M2M M2M or Machine to Machine communications have been around for a long time. So how is the IoT or the Internet of Things different?   The picture below shows that basic paradigm shift between the two concepts.   The easiest way to think about this is that Machine to Machine communications is a…

  • Technology Creates The Future

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    How to change the world To make a significant difference in our world, you either have to do something outstanding or have a lot of influence. Or both. And it will need many people to contribute over the course of the project.   So I keep an eye on some of the forums that help…

  • Big Data

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    Big Data You have probably heard the term Big Data by now. I certainly mentioned it in passing in my post on Information Overload. So I was amused to receive the final edition of IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering for 2011 with Big Data as the topic.   I learned a few more things…