Some 97 percent of companies with revenue of more than $100 million are pursuing expertise in business analytics. But the data analytics field is projected to come up short of professionals by 2018. You do the math.
Defense giant Raytheon's new RIOT software data mines information from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and image EXIF metadata, and applies predictive analytics to determine users' physical locations.
A data-mining project that adapts analytics used by Amazon and big box retailers to predict customer behavior is now being used to stop terrorism before it starts.
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The FBI just announced plans to ramp up their social media monitoring, data mining, and analysis. The surprising thing is that they haven't done so already.
Folger Shakespeare Library director Michael Witmore is using 21st-century tools to analyze the Bard's work. When data-mining techniques borrowed from the sciences and business research were applied to classic Shakespearean plays, surprising discoveries were made.
In the new book Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know, author Katy Börner gathers hundreds of examples of scientific maps, data charts, and timelines that span both geography and history. Here's a peek, including Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia World Map from 1482!
Just 24 hours after Digg announced it was slashing the workforce by 37%, more damaging revelations about the site are unearthed by Digg user LtGenPanda.
