Analytics/Big Data

IT Must Undergo a Makeover in 2014 IT is focusing on three areas in 2014: redefining IT's value to the enterprise, developing architecture and data analytics capabilities, and realigning talent.
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Analytics IDs Patients at Risk for Heart Failure Carilion Clinic applies predictive analytics and natural-language processing to electronic medical records to identify patients at risk for heart failure.
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Bank Turns to Cognitive Computing and Analytics DBS Bank, a global financial services firm, turns to cognitive computing and advanced analytics to boost the breadth and depth of its products and services.
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Five Questions That Can Help Secure Big Data What's the best way to ensure security and governance in a world where the impact of big data is not yet fully understood? Begin by asking the right questions.
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Data Visualization: Making Sense of Big Data As big data grows constantly bigger, IT organizations must come up with better ways to depict and make sense of it by using data visualization. We've come a long way from simple pie and bar charts, but the book The Visual Organization: Data...
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Managing & Securing Data for the World's Families CTO Scott Sorensen has a challenging job: Helping Ancestry.com expand and enhance its vast database of family information, while keeping that data secure.
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Dannon Speeds Up Data Preparation and Analysis Producing business reports used to take Dannon's IT team weeks or months, but a new data preparation system enables users to produce their own reports in hours.
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How to Align IT and Marketing on Big Data It's difficult to imagine that a decade or so ago, IT and marketing professionals could co-exist in the same building while going days—maybe even weeks—without speaking to each other. But that era is gone, and for a very good reason:...
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From Chess to Cancer: Watson's Latest Challenge The New York Genome Center and IBM are testing a Watson prototype that's designed to provide more personalized treatments for people with brain cancer.
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Emerald Home Furnishings Gets Comfortable With BI The company's business intelligence system saves it 40 to 60 hours a week. Its employees get better information, and they have access to it when they need it.
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