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Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Alistair blogs at: Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data January 23 2012 Feedback from a recent Strata Online Conference suggests there's a large demand for clear information on what big data is and how it will change business. read moreJanuary 04 2012 We're moving beyond an information economy. The efficiencies and optimizations that come from constant and iterative feedback will soon become the norm for businesses and governments. read moreSeptember 20 2011 Open data and transparency aren't enough: we need True Data, not Big Data, as well as regulators and lawmakers willing to act on it. read moreAugust 18 2011 Successful companies find ways to augment their employees, allowing them to operate at scale with customers. Big data, machine learning, and an iterative, experimental mindset are essential — and increasingly, company valuations are tied to the efficiency with which firms put information to work. read moreThere's no such thing as big data August 09 2011 Having a lot of data is not the same as using it well. Today's big companies are losing to small upstarts simply because those firms ask better questions. To compete, large enterprises need to learn how to harvest the data they have on customers, markets, competitors, and products. read moreJanuary 04 2011 Strata's science fair will showcase the creative edges of big data. If you have an interesting tool or technology to show -- the more beta, the better -- let us know. read moreTablets, education, and unions October 20 2010 Tablet computing can reverse the decline of U.S. education, but there's a side effect. Because tablets are digital, we can analyze how students learn and examine teachers' competence. It opens the question: What happens when the digital classroom challenges powerful teachers' unions? read moreSeptember 21 2010 Netezza sprinkled an appliance philosophy over a complex suite of technologies, making it easier for enterprises to get started. But the real reason for IBM's offer was that the company reset the price/performance equation for enterprise data analysis. read moreWhy Twitter's t.co is a game changer September 13 2010 If Twitter is so inclined, the company could turn the new t.co shortening service into a powerful analytics tool that solves the marketing and tracking issues of off-site engagement. read moreWhy Twitter's t.co is a game changer September 13 2010 If Twitter is so inclined, the company could turn the new t.co shortening service into a powerful analytics tool that solves the marketing and tracking issues attached to off-site engagement. read moreJune 21 2010 Bitcurrent and Webmetrics ran five cloud providers through a series of tests: a small object, a large object, a million calculations, and a 500,000-row table scan. Here's some of the results and lessons learned. read morePromiscuous online culture and the vetting process April 29 2010 Social networks, and the big data to analyze them, will forever change how we vet candidates, whether for security clearance, employment, or political office. Technology can help employers check candidates' backgrounds, monitor their behavior once hired, and protect their online reputations. But using the social tracks we share -- and… read moreWeb operators are brain surgeons April 14 2010 As we become more dependent on our collective consciousness, web operators will be much more involved in end-user experience measurement, from application design to real user monitoring. We're in the century of the distributed nervous system, and web operators are its brain surgeons read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Webcast: O'Reilly Strata Online Conference Also find Alistair on: Buy Now and Save
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