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Michael E. Driscoll

Michael E. Driscoll

I ♥ Big Data, analytics, and visualization. I blog at http://www.dataspora.com/blog
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Tapping into analytics is the key to converting petabytes of customer data into actionable insight: http://www.marketwatch.com/Story... #IBM #bigdata
Demand for people who can analyze big data outpaces supply by as much as 50-60% http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/1945-bi... #analytics
Using Google Refine, R, and Cytoscape to visualize SOPA on twitter: http://fredbenenson.com/blog... #dataviz
Within the next 6 years, the U.S. alone could face a shortage of 140k to 190k people with deep #analytical skills http://www.zdnet.com/blog...
When Big Data says "Happy Christmas", what is the sentiment? http://blog.mydigitalfootprint.com/when-bi... #sentiment #analytics
Great stuff RT @VisualizingOrg Thank you Visualizing community for an amazing year. http://www.visualizing.org/2011 Happy Holidays! #dataviz
EMC Surveys Data Science Community: Only 1/3 of Companies Making Effective Use of Data http://semanticweb.com/emc-sur... #bigdata #analytics
Thanks for the RTs and mentions: @gutelius @TibcoSpotfire @SocialLoans @tdhopper @grjenkin
Prosper Loan Data Part 2 - Social Network Analysis: What is the Value of a Friend? http://www.dataspora.com/2011... #socialnetworks #p2plending #data
Caringo and RainStor Partner to Offer Big Data Retention Capability for Structured and Unstructured Data: http://www.marketwatch.com/Story... #bigdata
Hortonworks tells Silicon Angle that “half the world’s data will be on Hadoop in 5 years.” http://pro.gigaom.com/2011... #hadoop bold claim?
RT @DataRush "Companies should realize that storing data will never create value without analysis" http://www.forbes.com/sites... #Forbes #analytics
RT @SimoDragicevic: StarCraft II Player Data Used for Cognitive Study http://www.industrygamers.com/news...
Predictive #analytics in BI are delivering significant ROIs, on average of $10.66 for every $1 spent! http://www.marketwatch.com/Story... #bigdata
Understanding The New Rock Star: The EMC Data Science Survey http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_... #datascience #analytics via @EMCcorp @measurefuture
Visualization of @ProsperLoans Data Part I of II – Compare and Contrast with Lending Club: http://www.dataspora.com/2011... #dataviz #socialnetwork
"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost." -Paul Bowles, via @sarawinge
Under the sheltering sky.... - Ellie K
Mining the Tar Sands of Big Data - http://www.dataspora.com/blog...
OH: "If you're going to look at info porn, you might as well just look at actual porn."
RT @HackerNewsYC: Mining the tar sands of big data http://www.dataspora.com/blog...
RT @nathanmarz Simple examples are the best documentation.
The cost of data curation often exceeds the cost of data storage. Curate less, keep more.
Facebook as a platform for data-driven sociology: "Breakups - The Visual Miscellaneum" http://leebyron.com/what...
The rise of data products: "Internet firms are becoming a valuable source of economic insights"- @TheEconomist http://www.economist.com/node...
Printed books are going the way of vinyl records. Bookstores are for antiquarians.
RT @bradfordcross: It is hard to feel overconfident in your intellect when you know that someone else invented the bacon covered doughnut.
Part Nate Silver, part OKCupid: The Facebook Data Team crunches voter turnout http://www.facebook.com/notes... /via @DonMacLennan
Zettabytes are the zeitgeist.
RT @jacobian: Via @flangy, a new term for a SQL/NoSQL combo: "data-mullet." Business in the front, party in the back!
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