Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
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Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
These tactics interact. Sometimes the very act of merging multiple datasets adds substantial value. Joining data correctly is hard! Other non-glamorous ways to add value include quality control, labelling and mapping, deduping, provenancing, and imposing data hygiene.
Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses
Neustar had lots of unstructured data—now housed in Hadoop clusters—and is exploring it to find out how best to turn it into products.
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
The amount of data we now access has grown far faster than the general level of data literacy in companies. Most companies have too much data, it’s stored in too many places, it’s not ‘clean’ and it’s often more confusing than helpful when it comes to what matters – making decisions with it. We need to ensure companies create centralized yet custom
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Clickstream data from the web may be a standard, easily handled data source in 10 years. Actively processing every e-mail, customer service chat, and social media comment may become a standard practice for most organizations. The tracking of hundreds of metrics per second from an engine may not make anyone break a sweat.