Analytics

Wired 6/20/2012 – GigaOM Pro has published a new report that coincides with its Structure 2012 conference in San Francisco today, and one focus that stood out to ZDNet’s Rachel King is “how cloud computing has trickled down the employee food chain in the last year and how that is transforming companies.”

Wall Street Journal 6/20/2012 – Ford officially opened its new Silicon Valley lab on Monday to help the company better tap into tech innovation. Part of the lab’s mission will be to look at how technologies like big data can leverage technologies embedded in cars to make better business decisions, from marketing campaigns to vehicle safety features.

Mashable 6/19/2012 – With the amount of hype around Big Data it’s easy to forget that we’re just in the first inning. More than three exabytes of new data are created each day, and market research firm IDC estimates that 1,200 exabytes of data will be generated this year alone.

Mashable 6/19/2012 – A new job board called Bright aims to kill resume overload with a little bit of data science. Instead of encouraging candidates to apply for as many jobs as possible, Bright promises to cut down on unnecessary resume exchanges by showing both parties what is the best fit for them.

The New York Times 6/18/2012 – Right now in Conway, Ark., north of Little Rock, more than 23,000 computer servers are collecting, collating and analyzing consumer data for a company that, unlike Silicon Valley’s marquee names, rarely makes headlines. It’s called the Acxiom Corporation, and it’s the quiet giant of a multibillion-dollar industry known as database marketing.