Along with lawyers, policy wonks and consultants, the room was packed with seasoned old coppers eagerly discussing "comparative assessment tools", "turning data into insight" and "mainstreaming".
They take lots of complicated and sometimes conflicting information, then using data and insight, they find ways to communicate this in a simple, accessible, impactful and creative way.
And it seemed very fitting to talk about big data, insight acceleration and real time analytics in the very place where mass and speed of light got combined for posterity, more than a century ago.
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One major component of data science is the ability to extract insight from data using tools from math, statistics and computer science.
It is not the data itself, but the insight based on the data that creates value .
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Yet the unraveling of big data into meaningful insight may depend just as heavily on the human side of the equation.
The estimates of total primary energy consumption are those of the EIA. For GDP figures, the EIA used data from Global Insight.
The report and campaign aim to empower citizens and retailers with the economic, labeling and consumer insight data necessary to make more informed food choices, ultimately shifting antibiotic use through purchasing power.
When it comes to business information, it is not only about building better systems to collect and analyze data, but also to seek out sources that can add insight to that data.
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When you combine these analyses with marketing-campaign data for ticketing and merchandise, simple questions can get interesting, and the effort to seek insight from these data troves can get complicated.
Enterprises with data and information that are presently managed within an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will leverage data integration technologies, such as those offered by large established vendors like Informatica, newly recognized vendors like Hadapt or emerging start-ups like Splice Machine, with whom I spoke this morning, and begin a migration towards Big Data, or Big-Data-like techniques to gain insight, and ultimately business value and innovation from data and information.
The critical terms in these formulas are Data, Information, Insight, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Imagination.
We live in an age of big data, in which firms are data rich, but insight poor.
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The Ideation module captures insight, data and perceptions from the customer base (whether they are external or internal).
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Creative problem solvers and people who can code or generate insight from data sets will be in high demand.
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Retailers and some publishers are beginning to sift through the data, gaining unprecedented insight into how people engage with books.
Once your competitor gets a culture of leveraging data to complement their insight, they will be very hard to catch.
Reports are created to visualize the information and manually identify relationships within the data that hopefully provide insight and predictive capabilities.
He is hiring mathematicians and database administrators for a new division to create algorithms that will draw insight from data tracking consumer behavior.
GridEye will produce dynamic system behavior data that will provide insight into how renewable generation assets change the dynamic behavior of the electric grid.
The EvaluatePharma data provides some interesting insight on this.
In addition to building a data platform to enable a holistic view of the customer, Neolane also offers consulting services, either through an in-house capability or through partners like Axciom or Epsilon to help append customer data to provide further insight into how to create ever-more compelling personalized offers that lead to higher conversion rates, and more importantly, happy customers.
Companies who proactively address their insight deficit problem and tap into the growing data spread across disparate systems to uncover important insight into their business will have a competitive advantage over those which do not.
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The machines that sift through huge amounts of data to gather nuggets of insight.
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Take for example the case of a data scientist charged with delivering insight on online ad performance.
Take it a bit further by combining the information in your internal systems with data from social profiles and third-party data services to gain real insight into your prospects and customers.
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The two IT companies said that as a result of the transaction, customers will be able to better harness todays explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers, making customers more productive, fast, and agile.
The ultimate health care applications will allow us to monitor our body and use the insight from that data to create an actionable, preventative health solution, such as an individual exercise or nutritional plan, in addition to devising a personal cocktail of medicine.
The insight, expertise and data private insurers and others were able to provide proved valuable for policy makers.
Rather the objective is to derive specific actionable insight from the Big Data.
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