by Yoo Mi Thompson | Oct 1, 2018 | Data
A Bloomberg article published earlier this year included a truly staggering statistic: $0.44 out of every dollar spent online is spent at Amazon. Nearly half of every dollar spent online. Online! The entire internet! Nearly half of every dollar spent on the entire...
by Russ Pearlman | Feb 6, 2017 | Data, Legal
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is data that can be used to indirectly identify a specific individual, such as a social security number, driver’s license number, or login name. PII is important to protect as a part of overall data security because PII is...
by David Barron | Sep 23, 2016 | CIO Concerns, Data, David's Blogs
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard, SVP at Gartner Research Data is awesome. More specifically, what some companies are doing with data today is awesome. We’re seeing advances ranging from...
by James A. Davis | Aug 15, 2014 | Data
What if when you went into your favorite apparel store at the mall you could: earn rewards for showing up see where your size of everything is on each rack as you approach it earn rewards for trying on clothes hear your favorite genre of music while trying on clothes...
by Parimal Patel | Jul 7, 2014 | Data
I read an article this week that sparked a thought in my mind around why businesses are not adapting to the times and using analytics to help them make decisions. I don’t think that all decisions need to have deep analyses behind them, however companies do tend to...
by Russ Pearlman | Oct 9, 2012 | Data
Entrepreneur magazine online has an article entitled “5 Ways ‘Big Data’ Is Changing the World”. A colleague of mine pointed it out to me, and another colleague told me to ignore it – it wasn’t very good. So, of course, I had to read...