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Big Data Challenges in Regulated Industries

I have been working with a large financial services company on a “big data” project. Let me qualify the term “big data” for the purpose of this discussion. We are talking of dealing directly with about 10 million records and indirectly about 100 million records. The direct records (approximately 10 …

Big data and analytics – Interesting tidbits for business analysts and product managers

By Joy Beatty

I’m at Strata+Hadoop World for the first time as part of the data driven business day tutorial, and I got to present on requirements analytics. But this whole day is awesome, like a crash course in big data and the kinds of results it can get you. The schedule is here, and …

Business Analytics: Requirements for Data Transformation

By Joy Beatty

There is a major change happening in the IT industry — the use of big data and analytics to guide how businesses are run. Many companies are embracing analytics as part of their core strategies. Unfortunately, some of those companies think that they can just purchase an analytics solution, implement …

I Know It’s In There Somewhere: Using Decisions to Identify and Prioritize Requirements for Business Analytics Projects

By Joy Beatty

Most normal people don’t look at data sets just for fun. They study views of the data to make decisions about what to do, be it a decision to take some specific action or a decision to do nothing at all. The main purpose of business analytics projects is to …

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