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Video: Visualization Is a Team Sport
Saul Sherry  
5/17/2013   9 comments
James Robinson, co-founder of Open Signal, tells us why it takes two to get great visualizations.
Video: Ocado's Audience Insight
Saul Sherry  
5/15/2013   8 comments
How Ocado uses big data to make sure vegetarians get a lean product offering.
Big Data Explained: What Is ETL?
Saul Sherry  
5/13/2013   9 comments
OK, so it's Extract, Transform and Load – but we'll show you what it really means.
Video: The Five-Step Big Data Plan
Saul Sherry  
5/9/2013   9 comments

Matt Hollingsworth of Acxiom talks us through the five-step big data plan.

Video: How Small Can Your Big Data Solution Be?
Saul Sherry  
5/3/2013   7 comments
Richard Edwards, CEO of DataShaka, asks us to consider how small, not how big, our big data project can be.
Video: Babies, Brains & Buses
Saul Sherry  
4/30/2013   9 comments
Lauren Walker, Sales Leader at IBM Big Data Solutions, talks us through big data's real-time help for premature babies.
Video: Shape Up on Small Data
Saul Sherry  
4/26/2013   16 comments
Mike Cornwell, CEO of The IDM, tells businesses they need to shape up on the small stuff before they get carried away with big data.
Big Data Explained: What Is HDFS?
Saul Sherry  
4/4/2013   13 comments
This is the system of distributing files that allows Hadoop to work on huge data sets at speed. It spreads blocks of data across different servers, as well as duplicating those blocks of data, and storing them distinctly.
Big Data in Use: GoSquared
Saul Sherry  
3/25/2013   7 comments

Continuing our series of interviews with businesses leveraging big data, we talk to James Gill, CEO of GoSquared.

Big Data Explained: What Is Pig?
Saul Sherry  
3/21/2013   8 comments
Pig basically simplifies the processes needed to get analytics done through Hadoop on your big data sets.
Big Data in Use: OpenSignal's Telecommunications Solution
Saul Sherry  
3/18/2013   3 comments
In the first of a series of interviews with business leaders who leverage big data, we talk to James Robinson, CTO and co-founder of OpenSignal.
Big Data Explained: What Is Hadoop?
Saul Sherry  
3/5/2013   9 comments
We've explored MapReduce; now let's look at how it enables Hadoop.
Big Data Explained: What Is MapReduce?
Saul Sherry  
2/26/2013   7 comments
MapReduce is a key technology powering big data, but what does it actually do?
Big Data Explained: What Is Velocity?
Saul Sherry  
1/18/2013   13 comments
Harnessing the speed at which big data is created, organizations can provide real benefit to their customers.
Big Data Explained: What Is Volume?
Saul Sherry  
11/28/2012   23 comments
With good management of the volume of their big data, organizations can experiment based on previous encounters.
Big Data Explained: What Is Variety?
Saul Sherry  
11/7/2012   22 comments
By managing the variety of information in big data, organizations can mitigate risk.




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