Are you attending the Chief Data Officer Summit in San Francisco this year? Our partners at IE know how to put together a fantastic event—but if you haven’t attended one before, here’s the breakdown on what you can expect. Chief Data Officer Summit: May 22-23, San Francisco, 2014 Data Strategy Innovation The Chief Data Officer summit brings together...

Are you planning on attending the Global Big Data Conference in Dallas? We hope you are. Two of our executive chimps, Flip Kromer and Eddie Satterly, will take the stage at the Global Big Data Conference’s Big Data Bootcamp next week to present on Storm and other big data tools. This conference, targeted to both technical and non-technical people who...

Every so often there comes along a fact or prediction about the future of technology that blows my mind. This infographic, published by BusinessIntelligence.com, takes us on a tour of the Internet of Things landscape, exploring its current state and its future possibilities. This fact in particular is the one that got me this week: “Our Internet of...

Did you know 500 million tweets are sent every day? Or that more than 55 million photos are shared every day? The online social landscape is impressive — both Facebook and YouTube have more than 1 billion users, Twitter has 232 million active users (and 651 million accounts), and Pinterest has more than 70 million users, just to name a few. There’s...

When you think of the US government and big data, it’s almost impossible not to think about the issue of privacy and the growing concerns surrounding it. In light of multiple controversies surrounding this topic including Edward Snowden, the NSA and general US spying, the government has (perhaps belatedly) opened conversations on the future of privacy — and...

The secret to a happy relationship has finally been cracked thanks to Happify and countless hours of scientific research. Now I know some of you have probably seen this infographic before (probably a couple months ago around Valentine’s Day), but I thought it was so good I had to share in case you missed it. Also who doesn’t want a few tips every now...