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Businesses understand the value of big data, but employees aren’t being trained to use it

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Read Brandon Vigliarolo explains why there is a vast data skill gap in big data technology on the Tech Republic : A study from Accenture and data analytics firm Qlik has discovered a massive problem in the big data world: A skills gap that is costing companies billions of dollars.

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The Ethics Of Big Data: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Are Writing New Case Studies For Us All

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The term “Big Data” has been around quite a while (see a short history of Big Data here), but really came into mainstream discussion in 2007 (which also happens to be the first year CTOvision used the word). The phrase had an important role in helping many of us think through new architectures for how […].

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Experian’s Data Breach Preparedness Study: Increased Investments in Security Aren’t Stopping Breaches

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While corporations today are more knowledgeable about security threats and prepared to respond to data breaches, there are key areas in which progress declined in 2019. Experian® released its seventh annual corporate preparedness study, Is Your Company Ready for a Big Data Breach?,

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

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Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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Study Finds AI More Critical than Big Data

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Data analytics has long been considered to be one of the keys to the productivity of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, a new report performed by GlobalData suggests that artificial intelligence is in fact more important to the productivity of the IoT than Big Data analysis.

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Advancing Genomics Through Big Data Studies: An Interview with Dr. Mark Guyer of NIH

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We have been reporting on bioinformatics in our Government Big Data Newsletter ( subscribe here ) since it started three years ago. More recently, we noted a press release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the topic of Big Data Centers of Excellence. There is so much going on in this field.

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Build a Strong Work Culture with Big Data

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When you think of Big Data, you think of companies leveraging analytics to predict consumer interests, habits, and buying histories in order to improve the way they market their products or services. However, Big Data isn’t only used externally – it can be used internally. Rick Delgado.

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