Big Data Analytics Helps India Nonprofit Prevent Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is one of the largest problems the world faces today. But My Choices Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in India, is using big data analytics to help fight it. How are they doing it? With technology partners, effective education and outreach. While many organizations work to rescue girls and prosecute the traffickers, Operation Red […]

Solid State Speed. Cisco and Intel Publish World Record Performance for Big Data Systems

Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as Big Data systems grew from a curiosity to one of the fastest growing segments in […]

Big Data and Big Results for Customer Experience

Earlier this week, more than 200 Cisco partners attended the latest Customer Success Talk webinar, “The Golden Thread: Connecting Data in the Value Chain”.  The live event featured Andy Starr, Vice President of Cisco’s Customer Success and Renewal Operations organization, where he shared his perspective on how data and analytics are key to understanding the customer […]

Polls emerge as the biggest losers in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Could big data have made a difference?

In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we witnessed the stunning and unexpected defeat of a methodology in addition to a candidate: poll-based election predictions. November 8, 2016 was a spectacular failure of poll-based predictions, fast on the heels of the spectacular failure of the poll-based predictions in the 2015 U.K. General Election. Since we have […]

Is polling data big data? A back-of-the-envelope calculation

For the past year Americans have read about polling data almost daily, so the casual observer may be forgiven for thinking there are mountains and mountains of data being collected to help make sense of this year’s unusual election. The truth is, though, that polling data is not big data, either in volume, velocity, or […]

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the source of the phrase “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”.  His saying is totally applicable to today’s world of Big Data and Analytics. Our industry landscape is constantly changing, no doubt about that! Think about it a bit from a technology point of view: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, […]