How Big Data Can Help Your Business: Case Studies from ReadWriteWeb - StampedeCon 2012

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At StampedeCon 2012 in St. Louis, David Strom of ReadWriteWeb.com presents: Pulling from ReadWriteWeb.com’s coverage of Big Data technologies in the Enterprise, we’ll see examples of how FedEx, Associated Press and others are using Big Data to drive their decisions.

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How
Big
Data
Can
Help
Your

Business:

Case
Studies
from
ReadWriteWeb

David
Strom

StampedeCon

August
1,
2012

david@strom.com

Download
this
here:
h?p://slideshare.net/davidstrom

My
publicaDons

Editorial management positions:

So
Big
Data
does
come
from

everywhere!

•  Planes,
trains
and
automobiles

•  Fun
with
maps

•  Big
and
li?le
ovens

•  Lessons
learned
from
P&G

•  Noteworthy
scienDsts

•  And
of
course
sex!

Three
skills
for
big
data
CEOs

•  Strategic
data
planning.

Data
is
the
new
raw

material
for
any
business.

•  Analy>cal
skills.
CEOs
should
be
incredibly

smart
about
asking
the
right
quesDons.

•  Technology
skills.
Embrace
the
technology

and
make
it
a
key
part
of
your
CEO
skill
set.

Mason’s
5-‐step
Big
Data
process

•  Obtain

•  Scrub

•  Explore

•  Model

•  Interpret

QuesDons?

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