Author Archives: Irfan Khan
A Brush With Genius: Analytics Help Detect Art Fraud
A relatively new and promising approach to detecting art fraud is called digital authentication. The technique takes a detailed look at brush patterns in a painting, and compares them against other paintings by the same artist's known, proven work…
Data Analytics Can Help Feed Planet
Big data analytics cannot make it rain, but it can be used to predict devastating droughts, and make local farmers be more productive.read more
Data: The Most Precious Commodity
I don't care for the comparison of big data to commodities such as oil, gold and even diamonds. Use a commodity, and it's often gone forever. However, data can yield knowledge beyond its original intent.
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Political Gamesmanship: Massachusetts Aims To Be First in Big Data
Few entities have more big data, and stand to benefit more from the intelligent use of big data than do governments. Kudos to the Bay State for taking a prominent role in applying big data analytics and data management efficiencies to its operations.
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A Nose for News: Analytics-Inspired Journalism
Data often reveals a different story angle that may not be immediately apparent when chasing down the who, what, where, and when.read more
Small Business: Seeding Growth With Analytics
Not that long ago, business intelligence systems were out of reach for most small-to-medium-sized companies. For most SMEs analyzing data was not as critical as simply processing it through business applications. From a proprietor’s perspective, any data…
Bay State Bets on Big Data
A savvy politician will latch on to a good idea when it means long-term investments and jobs for his or her constituents. That’s what Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has done by <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/0…
Worry More About Data Security
To expect data security to be perfect is not realistic. Inevitably, mistakes will happen and data will be lost. But such a realistic view does not mean glossing over those mistakes. If anything, realism compels us to take ever more vigilant measures to ass…
Little Devices Generate Big Data and Big Bucks
At Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist event this year company CEO Larry Page talked about the future, appropriately enough, while wearing the now famous Google Glasses. Among his observations was this …
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