Big Data Revolution

What Farmers, Doctors and Insurance Agents Teach Us About Discovering Big Data Patterns

By: Rob Thomas, Patrick McSharry

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Exploit the power and potential of big data to revolutionize business outcomes.

Big Data Revolution is a guide to improving performance, making better decisions, and transforming business through the effective use of big data. In this collaborative work by an IBM vice president of big data products and an Oxford research fellow, this audiobook presents inside stories that demonstrate the power and potential of big data within the business realm.

Listeners are guided through tried-and-true methodologies for getting more out of data and using it to the utmost advantage. This audiobook describes the major trends emerging in the field, the pitfalls and triumphs being experienced, and the many considerations surrounding big data, all while guiding listeners toward better decision-making from the perspective of a data scientist.

Companies are generating data faster than ever before, and managing that data has become a major challenge. With the right strategy, big data can be a powerful tool for creating effective business solutions - but deep understanding is key when applying it to individual business needs. Big Data Revolution provides the insight executives need to incorporate big data into a better business strategy, improving outcomes with innovation and efficient use of technology.

• Examine the major emerging patterns in big data
• Consider the debate surrounding the ethical use of data
• Recognize patterns and improve personal and organizational performance
• Make more informed decisions with quantifiable results

In an information society, it is becoming increasingly important to make sense of data in an economically viable way. It can drive new revenue streams and give companies a competitive advantage, providing a way forward for businesses navigating an increasingly complex marketplace. Big Data Revolution provides expert insight on the tool that can revolutionize industries.

©2015 Rob Thomas and Patrick McSharry (P)2018 Gildan Media, LLC

The Most Immoral Book of the Modern Era

Data has positives and negatives. Revolution is an appropriate word, since it highlights that there are drawbacks. But this book subverts the drawbacks and lauds data and AI with every chance it gets, overlooking the fact that data and AI is used for evil. They want every piece of data possible so they can make money and keep it. By wanting privacy or not wanting to subject yourself to algorithms that are built to ruin lives, you’re evil in their eyes. They straight up defend companies not paying taxes and just say that they should use algorithms better so that they don’t get caught or so they can avoid the media storm. Like it’s so sad how much they love money and don’t care about humanity.

Basically reads like a “Hey, you’re a money grubbing manager or business owner, right? Well this how you can use surveillance of consumers to get richer.” Replace the word with data in this book for surveillance and you’ll see how evil these authors are. All they care about is data and business survival. Quite sad. They ignore monopolies on data and don’t care that the big companies are using their data control to destroy capitalism. Are Facebook or Google really going to share their data? No, they’re going to sell it or keep it for themselves. Clearly these authors don’t care about that at all either.

Google and Facebook are heroes and Snowden is a bad bad man for wanting privacy because the data collection was good. It did good. You don’t like data? You’re just an idiot who doesn’t realize the good it did. Like seriously. What the heck did I just listen to?