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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823482903321

Autore

Minelli Michael <1974->

Titolo

Big data, big analytics : emerging business intelligence and analytic trends for today's businesses / / Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, Ambiga Dhiraj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2013

ISBN

1-118-56226-7

1-118-23915-6

1-283-94095-7

1-118-22583-X

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 187 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Wiley CIO series

Disciplina

658.4/72

Soggetti

Business intelligence

Information technology

Electronic data processing

Data mining

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for Today's Businesses; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Is Big Data and Why Is It Important?; A Flood of Mythic ""Start-Up"" Proportions; Big Data Is More Than Merely Big; Why Now?; A Convergence of Key Trends; Relatively Speaking . . .; A Wider Variety of Data; The Expanding Universe of Unstructured Data; Setting the Tone at the Top; Notes; Chapter 2: Industry Examples of Big Data; Digital Marketing and the Non-line World; Don't Abdicate Relationships

Is IT Losing Control of Web Analytics?Database Marketers, Pioneers of Big Data; Big Data and the New School of Marketing; Consumers Have Changed. So Must Marketers.; The Right Approach: Cross-Channel Lifecycle Marketing; Social and Affiliate Marketing; Empowering Marketing with Social Intelligence; Fraud and Big Data; Risk and Big



Data; Credit Risk Management; Big Data and Algorithmic Trading; Crunching Through Complex Interrelated Data; Intraday Risk Analytics, a Constant Flow of Big Data; Calculating Risk in Marketing; Other Industries Benefit from Financial Services' Risk Experience

Big Data and Advances in Health Care""Disruptive Analytics""; A Holistic Value Proposition; BI Is Not Data Science; Pioneering New Frontiers in Medicine; Advertising and Big Data: From Papyrus to Seeing Somebody; Big Data Feeds the Modern-Day Donald Draper; Reach, Resonance, and Reaction; The Need to Act Quickly (Real-Time When Possible); Measurement Can Be Tricky; Content Delivery Matters Too; Optimization and Marketing Mixed Modeling; Beard's Take on the Three Big Data Vs in Advertising; Using Consumer Products as a Doorway; Notes; Chapter 3: Big Data Technology

The Elephant in the Room: Hadoop's Parallel WorldOld vs. New Approaches; Data Discovery: Work the Way People's Minds Work; Open-Source Technology for Big Data Analytics; The Cloud and Big Data; Predictive Analytics Moves into the Limelight; Software as a Service BI; Mobile Business Intelligence is Going Mainstream; Ease of Mobile Application Deployment; Crowdsourcing Analytics; Inter- and Trans-Firewall Analytics; R&D Approach Helps Adopt New Technology; Adding Big Data Technology into the Mix; Big Data Technology Terms; Data Size 101; Notes; Chapter 4: Information Management

The Big Data FoundationBig Data Computing Platforms (or Computing Platforms That Handle the Big Data Analytics Tsunami); Big Data Computation; More on Big Data Storage; Big Data Computational Limitations; Big Data Emerging Technologies; Chapter 5: Business Analytics; The Last Mile in Data Analysis; Geospatial Intelligence Will Make Your Life Better; Listening: Is It Signal or Noise?; Consumption of Analytics; From Creation to Consumption; Visualizing: How to Make It Consumable?; Organizations Are Using Data Visualization as a Way to Take Immediate Action

Moving from Sampling to Using All the Data

Sommario/riassunto

Unique prospective on the big data analytics phenomenon for both business and IT professionals  The availability of Big Data, low-cost commodity hardware and new information management and analytics software has produced a unique moment in the history of business. The convergence of these trends means that we have the capabilities required to analyze astonishing data sets quickly and cost-effectively for the first time in history. These capabilities are neither theoretical nor trivial. They represent a genuine leap forward and a clear opportunity to realize enormous gains in ter



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822043303321

Autore

Paradis James G.

Titolo

Samuel Butler, Victorian against the grain : a critical overview / / edited by James G. Paradis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-9230-8

1-4426-8905-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Disciplina

828/.809

Soggetti

Authors, English - 19th century

Essayists - Great Britain

Critics - Great Britain

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / James G. Paradis -- pt. 1. New Zealand and Early London Years, 1860-73 -- 1. From Canterbury Settlement to Erewhon: Butler and Antipodean Counterpoint / Roger Robinson -- 2. Butler, Memory, and the Future / Gillian Beer -- 3. Ironies of Biblical Criticism: From Samuel Butler's 'Resurrection' Essay and The Fair Haven to Erewhon Revisited / Elinor Shaffer -- pt. 2. Evolutionist, 1874-86 -- 4. 'The written symbol extends infinitely': Samuel Butler and the Writing of Evolutionary Theory / David Amigoni -- 5. 'A Conspiracy of One': Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization / Bernard Lightman -- 6. Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of All Flesh / Sally Shuttleworth -- 7. Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic / Herbert Sussman -- 8. Mind Matters: Butler and Late Nineteenth-Century Psychology / Ruth Parkin-



Gounelas -- pt. 3. On The Margin, 1887-1902 -- 9. Samuel Butler, Local Identity, and the Periodizing of Northern Italian Art: The Travel Writer-Painter's View of Art History / Clarice Zdanski -- 10. Samuel Butler's Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past / Elizabeth Edwards -- 11. Butler's Narcissus: 'A Tame Oratorio' / Ellen T. Harris -- 12. Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman: The Reception of The Authoress of the Odyssey / Mary Beard -- 13. Butler after Butler: The Man of Letters as Outsider / James G. Paradis.

Sommario/riassunto

Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age.