Data-driven disaster relief: Measuring the impact of emergency response
With natural disasters picking up in frequency and intensity, the role of NGOs in disaster relief is picking up as well. A key requirement for all NGOs is transparency, and applying data-driven techniques may help.
Read More →Radio data and the future of broadcasters: Using attribution analysis to measure consumer behavior
Is it possible to determine how effective radio advertising really is? TagStation says yes, using a method called attribution analysis, and this may be key for the future of broadcasters.
Read More →Business analytics: The essentials of data-driven decision-making
Data shows that data-driven organizations perform better. But what does it take to get there?
Read More →NBA analytics and RDF graphs: Game, data, and metadata evolution, and Occam’s razor
Three-point shooting, Steph Curry, and coming up with stories. If you feel like doing your own analysis to investigate hypotheses or discover insights at any level, RDF graph's got your back. Case in point: The NBA.
Read More →Modernizing Hadoop: Reaching the plateau of productivity
What's new in Hadoop, and how is vendor dynamics and strategy evolving?
Read More →Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and streamline sustainable development goals. While this is work in progress, there are some fundamental questions as to its effectiveness.
Read More →Water data is the new oil: Using data to preserve water
Data and water do mix, apparently. Using data and analytics can lead to great benefits in water preservation.
Read More →Data.world: The importance of linking data and people
Notepads, graphs, data lakes, collaboration, and data manifestos. Data.world has an interesting blend of philosophy and technology going on — and it all converges around one thing: Facilitating data-driven analysis by making it a team sport.
Read More →Reflect: Embedded meta analytics, built for developers
Cloud-based analytics for on premise data, an API-first approach for embedded product analytics, and impact-based pricing. Meet Reflect.
Read More →Opening banking data and APIs: Land of opportunity or Pandora’s box?
The EU directive PSD2 may not be as famous as GDPR, but its effects may be even more dramatically felt by financial institutions and anyone transacting with them.
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