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Making Big Data Work for Your Business

You're reading from   Making Big Data Work for Your Business A clear, practical and simple guide to ensuring effective Big Data analytics for your business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783000982
Length 170 pages
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Sudhi Ranjan Sinha Sudhi Ranjan Sinha
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Making Big Data Work for Your Business
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Building Your Strategy Framework 2. Creating an Opportunity Landscape and Collecting Your Gold Coins FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Your Big Data Projects Effectively 4. Building the Right Technology Landscape 5. Building a Winning Team 6. Managing Investments and Monetization of Data 7. Driving Change Effectively 8. Driving Communication Effectively

Assessing your Gold Coin project


Next you need to develop a simple assessment framework. First, you should start with the key objective or expected outcome from the Gold Coin idea and then answer the following questions:

  • Do we need to process millions of records or terabytes of data to achieve the project objectives? (Volume)

  • Do we have data coming constantly at very frequent intervals, say less than every 15 minutes? (Velocity)

  • Do we have data from multiple sources that have some common elements but look very different and are not easy to normalize? (Variety)

  • Are there intermittent trust issues with some of the data that come in? (Veracity)

  • Is there a dire need to get creative with visually representing the data for business users and customers to understand intuitively? (Visualization)

  • Will we be able to get such data in future if we want to repeat this project for this part of the business and other similar parts of the business? (Viability)

  • Do we have tangible benefits for our business? (Tangible...

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Making Big Data Work for Your Business
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