Tag: data
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Link: Without a formal mandate
“In almost every case there are stakeholders who are moved by quantitative data (say the percentage of phone calls that could be avoided.) There are also other stakeholders who connect with qualitative human stories. The magic really happens when you offer both types of evidence. Telling the stories, and backing them up with data points…
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Link: Datical automates database deployments; it’s DevOps for data
“The vendor has been adding to its stable of paying customers and now has more than 40, many of which are Fortune 500 enterprises. It did not report annual revenue, but we estimate it to be under but nearing $10m.” Original source: Datical automates database deployments; it’s DevOps for data
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Link: The Travel Industry’s Data Dilemma: Turning Insights into Action
“Further complicating matters, a large amount of customer data still lives in departmental silos, with sales, marketing, and customer service each supplying separate customer experiences. Those databases can easily grow stale or become inconsistent, since customer information owned by one department is often not shared with others. Keeping it up to date is an even…
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Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
“[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer research surveys.” Original source: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
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Link: A look inside American Family Insurance’s digital transformation office
“More specifically, our definition will include leveraging technologies, such as AI, machine learning or robotic process automation, but it’s really about data and how we’ll utilize it. Like most insurers, we have decades of outcome data. Now, with evolving capabilities, the availability of new data sources and advances in analytical modeling, we can marry historical…
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Link: Products Over Projects
“Product owners prove actual benefits either with data from A/B testing, analytics, user surveys, etc. or with feedback from business. This ability is dependent on good engineering capability to develop and release frequently in small chunks and good analytics capability to determine delta changes in adoption, conversion etc.” Original source: Products Over Projects
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Link: The dangers of faith in data
“Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of getting too much confidence in data driven decisions. Original source: The dangers of faith in data
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Link: How dating sites spy on you
“Dating app users provide sensitive information like drug usage habits and sexual preferences in hopes of finding a romantic match…. everything you put on your profile, including drug use and health status. Web trackers can examine your behavior on a page and how you answer key personal questions.” Original source: How dating sites spy on…
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Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall
“key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or well-being of a system — versus observability — the view into and understanding of the state of events within a system.” Original source: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall
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Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates
Original source: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates
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Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey
“Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need to search 43 databases (seven minutes per search). They will spend more than 1,259 hours on this, which equates to nearly 60 hours of searches per working day or 7.5 employees dedicated solely to GDPR enquiries.” It’s a…
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Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close – Life on the edge
A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and pocket devices,” or something. “many new applications have to act fast. According to some estimates, self-driving cars generate as much as 25 gigabytes per hour, nearly 30 times more than a high-definition video stream. Before so many…
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Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do
Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures to check they comply with GDPR requirements for privacy by design, ensuring only the minimum amount of personal data necessary is processed. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) should be completed when using new technologies and the data processing is likely to result…
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Atlantis: The DSSD, data centre disk killer rising from the deep
Atlantis: The DSSD, data centre disk killer rising from the deep
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About Miller
‘It operates on key-value-pair data while the familiar Unix tools operate on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the array, then Miller’s natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data…
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Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
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Better get a referral
Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than…
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Your address book is worth ~$45, your medical records ~£12,000
I’m envisioning one of those butcher charts with all the cuts of meat, except it’s a human and all their social info and personal data/records: If Facebook values your phone book at $42, or £25.24 today, what do you think your lifelong medical record is worth? The health industry is a colossal business, much bigger…
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