Big Data was always around in some form or another. At some point, businesses decided to use that information to learn what makes their clients tick with phrases like "sales...

Researchers from the University of Bristol measure [public mood in the UK](http://mediapatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/) by analyzing tweets. In Brazil a team led by a computer scientist use Twitter to [identify dengue fever...

( Kunsthoffpassage funnel wall photo by Serge.Bystro , Some rights reserved ) Funnel analysis is awesome. Whether your company has a checkout, a registration, or any kind of process on...

Now, Hadoop! Now, SQL! Now, NOSQL, and Opensource! On, Cloud technology! On, Apps! On, SaaS, and Infrastructure!

Here we are...AWS re:Invent 2013 in Vegas baby Vegas!

Everyone is always looking for the next big thing.  Big Data isn’t the next big thing, it’s already the big thing. Anyone in an industry that collects mass amounts of...

Peanut butter and jelly. Peas and carrots. Forest and Jenny. Bert and Ernie. Abbot and Costello. Sports and data? Of course.

(Courtesy of Norbert von der Groeben and Stanford University) A couple of weeks ago we posted about the datafication of everything, with a few examples of what can be quantified,...