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Dubai Statistics Center plays a key role in national development

IBM Big Data & Analytics has enabled Dubai Statistics Center to provide government officials, researchers, businesses and public sector organizations with accurate and deep insight about the region’s economic growth, social development and evolving global business climate.
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Blog | by Sarah Warsaw

Tracking tries and predicting winners

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is currently using the IBM TryTracker to analyze real-time data from England's four international games this month. How has team England been doing?
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Menka Uttamchandani VP, Business Intelligence, Denihan Hospitality Group

Many businesses are exploring the competitive advantages that data gives their customer experience and their bottom line. Menka Uttamchandani, VP of business intelligence at Denihan Hospitality Group and this week's Big Data & Analytics Hero, shares that “once we understand attitudes, we can
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Michael North Senior Director of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling, National Football League (NFL)

<p>Michael North, senior director of broadcast planning and scheduling for the National Football League (NFL) and this week&rsquo;s Big Data &amp; Analytics Hero, asks the all important question: &quot;How do you&hellip;find that one grain of sand?&rdquo;&nbsp;North
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Blog | by Graeme Noseworthy

Switching hats from media industry leader to media consumer

At IBM Insight, we have sessions specifically geared to the media and entertainment industry—your industry. But, we don't want you to just come and listen to us talk about audience analytics and demand forecasting. We want you to switch hats so we can listen to you.
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Governance

Blog | by Kaitlin Noe

What does the Gmail hack tell us about data security?

Hackers claimed to have released a list of five million Gmail usernames and passwords this past Thursday, resulting in coverage of yet another high profile data breach in the news. Who was responsible for the leak: Google or its users? What does this incident teach us about the public view on
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Blog | by Graeme Noseworthy

How leading media companies increase customer value

Throughout the year, I’ve been participating in a series of day-long “Art of the Possible” sessions with clients that run the gamut of media and entertainment. I’ve met with cable companies, broadcast TV providers, movie studios, sports networks and beyond. These sessions are intense, provocative
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NFL optimizes schedules with IBM's analytics systems

Michael North, senior director of broadcast planning and scheduling for the National Football League (NFL), has a tough job: assembling the best, most exciting schedule for the complete NFL season that satisfies the requirements of the teams, the broadcasters and fans. It's truly a big data
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Blog | by Jacqueline Woods

How next-generation infrastructure informs better, faster decision-making

Data is emerging as the world’s newest natural resource and the basis for a new kind of competitive advantage. Yet, for many organizations, the increasing volume, variety and influx of data is straining their IT infrastructures—traditional infrastructure was never designed to handle the magnitude
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Big Data

Blog | by Kaitlin Noe

Make sure your big data isn’t bad data

When data floods companies in such volume as recent years have seen, it can be difficult to know if big data is reliable data. This “data uncertainty” poses a problem for any company hoping to take advantage of their information’s potential. How can companies ensure that their data meets the
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Big Data

Blog | by Courtney Pallotta

Build the next great app in the cloud

Think it, try it and build it with IBM Bluemix, a cloud-based developer sandbox for big data and data management services. Bluemix makes agile mobile and web app development with best of breed capabilities a reality.
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Blog | by James Kobielus

Using real-time analytics to identify who's scooping whom in online journalism

Working journalists are locked into a never-ending race against time. Not only are reporters always up against deadlines, but they are constantly scrambling to make sure they break the news before the competition. As more people turn to online news sources (including, but not limited to traditional
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Big Data

Blog | by Harriet Fryman

Seize your big data moment and benefit from Insight 2014

Insight 2014, formerly Information On Demand, will bring more than 13,000 business and IT professionals together to exchange ideas and share experiences around harnessing the data coming from all directions in real time. Industry pundits, peers and thought leaders will connect the dots between big
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Data Science

Blog | by James Kobielus

Empowering athletes with real-time, data-driven decision support

There are complex challenges that a data scientist might face in statistically modeling real-time decision-support scenarios in fast-moving athletic competitions. Each sport needs to be modeled on its own terms. A within-game decision-support predictive model for one sport cannot be applied
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Blog | by James Kobielus

Real-world experiments and the Facebook controversy over mood manipulation

The recent controversy over the ethics of Facebook's attempts to influence moods through tweaks to its newsfeed algorithms is overblown. Essentially, Facebook data scientists conducted one of many real-world experiments that are standard operating procedure with them and with most online businesses

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