January 2013
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187 pages
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Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for Today's Businesses
by Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, Ambiga Dhiraj
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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Books
Bill Franks. Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
O’Reilly Radar Team. O’Reilly Media, Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O’Reilly Radar. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2011.
O’Reilly Radar Team. Ethics of Big Data. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2012.
Edd Dumbill. Big Data. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2013.
Blogs and Websites
Big Data
- David Smith blog, http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
- BigDataUniversity, www.bigdatauniversity.com
- IBM Smarter Computing Blog, www.smartercomputingblog.com/category/big-data
- Silicon Angle TV, http://siliconangle.tv/channels/Hadoop
- Top Influencers Big Data, Analytics, Data Mining, www.kdnuggets.com/2012/02/top-influencers-big-data-analytics-data-mining.html
Visualization
- Data Stories, http://datastori.es
- Visual Insights, http://visualinsights.wordpress.com
- Science and Art Big Data Visualization, http://visualinsights.wordpress.com
- Information is Beautiful, www.informationisbeautiful.net
- Jer Thorp, http://blog.blprnt.com
- Flowing Data, http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/artistic-visualization
- Hint.FM, http://hint.fm
- Data Visualization Tools, http://selection.datavisualization.ch
- Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Analysts
- GigaOm, http://gigaom.com
- Forrester Big Data Blog, http://blogs.forrester.com/category/big_data
- Gartner – Doug Laney,
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