Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’

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Harvard Museum of Natural History: Skulls & the evolution of homo sapiens (Photo credit: Chris Devers)

Samuel Arbesman, wired.com

Our species can?t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes even bigger, higher, and bolder. We did it in…

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Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’

Why big data is about mining real world behavior

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By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com

Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet.

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Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise of the Machines

How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight: a case from a Jet Blue disaster

Good article on ways that companies such as JetBlue can use text analytics to analyze thousands of emails for business intelligence

How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight – Business_intelligence – Analytics – Informationweek.

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit

Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech, 2010
Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech, 2010 (Photo credit: John “Pathfinder” Lester)

via www.gartner.com

This rather exciting conference coming up in March covers the frontiers of digital business, enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, collective intelligence and other stimulating subjects.