Principles
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Three Things You Should Know About the Hidden Data Economy
In every organization is a hidden data economy. The supply side comes from apps, devices, and sensors creating new observations and adding them to an ever-growing stock of data capital. The demand side comes primarily from analytics and AIs chewing on those datasets to improve actions and decisions across the firm. But most companies don’t Continue reading
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Another Convert To Bigdataism
Tom Davenport, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, makes a confession on page two of his new book Big Data At Work. He was a big data skeptic. A doubter. In fact, he says, he considered taking his previous books and just doing a global replace of analytics with big data and Continue reading
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Because Data Science
In a famous lecture, the great physicist Richard Feynman defined the key to science. “If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong.” He added that someone’s fame or credentials can’t make a wrong idea right. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. Because science. From the earliest days of science, when it was still called natural Continue reading
Paul Sonderegger 