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Waterford, PA:
How does One Consume an Ocean of Data? A Meaningful Sip at a Time
So many data, so many ways to use it, ignore it, misapply it, co-opt, brag, and lament about it. It’s the new oil as suggested not long ago by Clive Humby, data scientist, and has been writte…
Make Your Metrics Meaningful
Measuring aspects of your business, marketplace, customers and partners is more important than ever for BI and analytics leaders. Well-designed metric frameworks, yardsticks and communication mechanisms can avoid the many pitfalls that lead to confusion, misdirection and lack of collaborative performance.
Meta shares how it detects silent data corruptions in its data centres
After three years of testing, Meta has found its preferred approach for detecting silent data corruptions.
NetAppVoice: How Durable Is Your Data? For Safety, Consider Object Storage
Companies increasingly rely on massive data troves to make decisions and interact with customers, and when the data is good, results can be amazing. But what if it gets corrupted or lost? Bad data costs US businesses hundreds of billions of dollars annually...
How Etsy Optimized Data Center Infrastructure for Efficiency
Etsy's approach to collaboration are key to efficiency just as much as tuning different pieces of its data center.
How “Little Data” Gives SMBs More Actionable Customer Insight
Sick of hearing about Big Data? Many integrated marketers are. That’s because mining Big Data calls for Big Dollar platforms and special expertise today’s smaller firms often can’t afford. But does that mean little guys are doomed to be the data have-nots? Some experts say no. Leveraging Little Data As we’ve been reporting, small and …
Do You Know What XBRL Is? A Majority of Survey Respondents Do Not Know
Survey finds that companies are not using structured data, such as XBRL, in their financial reporting except when they have to for reporting to regulators.
Preventing a Data Breach
Virtually all businesses collect and store personal information about customers, employees, and others. Data breaches are on the rise, and it's not just a pr...
Designing Meaningful Data Products
You'll learn: Interaction design best practices for data products How to transform unstructured data to useful insights for users How to adapt to upcoming tren…
Meaningful Metrics and Custom Data Monitoring
Data monitoring is all about collecting data and measuring what used to be intangible. Marketing campaigns are now capable of providing an objective measure of their success. Information upgrades are monitored for their cost effectiveness. ROI milestones and goals are set with metrics allowing you to know, for certain, whether or not these goals have been... Read more »
Turning data overload into meaningful value
In today’s digital environment, companies and their customers are generating increasing amounts of data. Correctly interpreted and used, this overload can be a means of competitive differentiation. It can improve understanding of customers and their behaviors, as well as control of internal processes. However, in many cases, the amount of data is so large, and the nature of it so complex, that it is difficult to…
Transforming Big Data into Meaningful Insights
In this special guest feature, Marc Alacqua, a founding partner of Signafire, discusses a useful approach to data – known as data fusion – which is essentially alchemy-squared, turning not just one but multiple raw materials in to something greater than the sum of their parts. It goes beyond older methods of big data analysis, like data integration, in which large data sets are simply thrown together in one environment. In this new science of data fusion, technology is deployed not just to…
Telematics Data That’s Meaningful for Fleet Managers
Geotab is a highly data-centric provider, and they pride themselves on only storing data that is meaningful to fleet managers - including engine diagnostics,...
Data: The first step to meaningful change
People often assume that the biggest database is the best. Size is important, yes, but equally important are “data types,” “data velocity,” and “data integration and accessibility.” Although Willia…
What is Data Standardization, and How Can it Work for You?
Collecting data about customers and their preferences was once a time-consuming and expensive process, but most modern businesses take it…
4 Ways to Make Open Data Meaningful
Helping citizens build smarter communities through GIS technology the can help spur innovation, form connections and ultimately lead to action.
The Chief Data Officer's Guide to Meaningful Business Metrics
Only 15% of data and analytics strategies have concrete measures of success. The rest mentions no business outcomes at all, or list qualitative goals such as
Data Isn't Important, But How You Consume It Is
Two decades ago, data was the buzzword in the business world.
9 ways of gathering meaningful data about your customers
Understanding your customers better isn't as complex as you might think, but it does require a thoughtful analysis of where and how you can collect meaningful data.
23 surprises from CMS' meaningful use attestation data
Wondering which vendors net the most meaningful use attestation incentive checks for their customers? Here's a complex breakdown of CMS data.
