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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a more important role than ever in fine-tuning the relationship between customers and brands. The Complex Role Between Big Data and Social Listening Tools. Social media monitoring involves collecting data and is quantifiable. Big Data Makes Social Listening More Viable than Ever.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

datapine

The saying “knowledge is power” has never been more relevant, thanks to the widespread commercial use of big data and data analytics. The rate at which data is generated has increased exponentially in recent years. Essential Big Data And Data Analytics Insights. million searches per day and 1.2

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? Data may be perfectly valid, but still not represent reality. It is hard to account for such tweaking in measurement systems.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

There is no longer always intentionality behind the act of data collection — data are not collected in response to a hypothesis about the world, but for the same reason George Mallory climbed Everest: because it’s there. And for good reason!