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Big data’s big impact
Date: 12-02-2012 Source: Reuters By Chrystia Freeland The Internet is, of course, old hat. We are all getting used to social media, too — your grandmother probably has a Facebook account, and every CEO...
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Big Data. Big Impact.
Date: 12-02-2012 Source: Jim Baum Former CEO I had the honor this week of speaking with Om Malik of GigaOm on stage at the Structure: Big Data event in New York City. This was a first of its kind...
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Date: 19-02-2012 Source: The New York Times Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an...
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How Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did
Date: 21-02-2012 Source: TIME In Charles Duhigg’s new piece for the New York Times, a father finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to apologize to a Target employee. Earlier he had...
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Facebook’s Telescope on Human Behavior
Date: 13-04-2012 Source: Technology Review The leader of the social network’s efforts to mine its piles of data says the effort can help explain why people act as they do. One way to describe Facebook...
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The Future of Work: Automate or Perish
Date: 05-07-2012 Source: Technology Review Successful businesses will be those that optimize the mix of humans, robots, and algorithms. In Automate This, a book due out next month, author and...
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Consumer Data, but Not for Consumers
Date: 22-07-2012 Source: The New York Times BUPKIS. Zilch. Zip. Niente. Zero. Nada. I recently asked to see the information held about me by the Acxiom Corporation, a database marketing company that...
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Making Advanced Analytics Work for You
by Dominic Barton and David Court, HBR 10/12 Big data and analytics have rocketed to the top of the corporate agenda. Executives look with admiration at how Google, Amazon, and others have eclipsed...
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Big data: revolution by numbers
Date: 19-11-2012 Source: The Guardian The availability of huge amounts of data, and our increasing ability to utilise it, is transforming many fields of human endeavour Sport Although cricket lovers...
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Big Data Is on the Rise, Bringing Big Questions
Date: 30-11-2012 Source: The Wall Street Journal The recent Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event focused on Big Data, the next “next big thing.” Analysts are saying that going forward, companies will...
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Mine Your Digital Business
Date: 10-10-2014 Source: Project Syndicate NATHAN EAGLE Nathan Eagle is the CEO of Jana, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. BOSTON – Nearly everyone has a digital footprint – the trail of...
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Humans are underrated
Geoff Colvin, Fortune Magazine, July 23, 2015, 6:30 AM EDT As technology becomes more dominant in the workplace, here are the three job skills that you need to thrive. As the Pepper robot from...
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The algorithmic CEO
Date: 11-10-2015 Source: Fortune january 2015, Ram Charan Get ready for the most sweeping business change since the Industrial Revolution. The single greatest instrument of change in today’s business...
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Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods...
Date: 09-11-2015 Source: The Guardian : A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief...
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