Archive for June 2011

Text Analytics – Slaying the Unstructured Data Dragon

The origin of the word “dragon” has been traced to a Greek word meaning “sharp-sighted one”.  The dragon is purported to have unusually acute vision, and in legends is known as a guardian of temples, paradises and hidden treasures. Today’s dragon in the world of data is the massive amount of unstructured text that originates [...]

Spicing Up Analytics with Data Variety

They say that variety is the spice of life. Unless you’re in IT. Then it’s a source of indigestion. BUT like Big Data, Data Variety is a huge opportunity to find patterns across all the information within an enterprise. Many work processes depend on documents, emails, images, proprietary formats, and even multimedia. To limit your [...]

Is Big Data Really Small Data?

There are two ways to read the question. Is Big Data really a problem with managing Small Data? In other words, when we talk about managing Big Data are we not really talking about managing data at a more granular level? Adding more dimension and detail to the data we choose to record? Now someone [...]