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Gathering the World's Data

The founder and CEO of Factual, Gil Elbaz, is trying to aggregate all the world's information. But… that's not so simple.
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Tuesday May 22, 2012 3:43:21 AM
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Structuring big data and deriving meanigful conclusion is no simple task the data often a time is so eschewed that it becomes useless for the analyst the data gathering mechanism should be enabled to ignore any such irrelevant and useless data.
Mary Jander
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Monday May 21, 2012 12:46:53 PM
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Just getting big-data together for analysis is a challenge. Sometimes reading about analytics makes it sound as though this happens almost automatically, simply by adding some software to the network. Not so; and perhaps it's time for enterprises to start considering how they're going to deal with the formatting issues required to get analytics to work for them.

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Tying Marketing With Analytics

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Gil Elbaz, CEO of Factual, talks about the importance of data and analytics for marketers and how the technology is evolving to better assist automated, real-time decisions.
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Elizabeth Pizzinato, SVP of marketing and communications at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, calls content marketing "the new black" and explains how her brand engages its target audience.
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An Evolving Take on Marketing at Citi

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Linda Descano, President and CEO of Women & Co., and managing director of partnerships and branded content of North America marketing at Citi, explains her firm's marketing opportunities and challenges.
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How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

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Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
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Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

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Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
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Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

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New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
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Fast Forward to the Future

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A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
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How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

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Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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