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Evaluate

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• Social media sentiment analysis helps investors place bond bets

  Sentiment analysis based on social media data can be tricky to pull off, but Capital Market Exchange is using it to provide insights on the corporate bond market to investment managers. Continue Reading

• Social media data analysis spans a spectrum of business uses

  Different facets of the social media analytics process offer different types of information to businesses looking to monitor social networks and analyze their own social media strategies. Continue Reading

• The future of analytics lies in open source technology

  All the excitement of analytics professionals today is attached to open source tools. Author Cory Isaacson explains why. Continue Reading

• Analytics in sports helps USTA modernize

  Tennis is all about tradition, but the USTA is slowly embracing analytics technology, enabling it to modernize its operations. Continue Reading

• Hadoop clusters provide single spot for spreadmarts, analytics

  Consultant Wayne Eckerson says Hadoop offers a platform for reining in the spreadmarts set up by individual data analysts and business users, while still giving them a place to do self-service analytics. Continue Reading

• Enterprise Hadoop: Ready for prime time?

  Many vendors are pitching Hadoop as the foundation for enterprise data management environments that delivers information and insights to business users and serves as a hub for other data systems and applications. In the era of big data, the case for...Continue Reading

• Loshin: Self-service technology helps bring BI into CRM programs

  Consultant David Loshin explains the business benefits that self-service BI tools can provide to help users circumvent IT challenges in CRM analytics.Continue Reading

• Location-based analytics helps orgs zero in on gains

  Location-based analytics may be overlooked right now, but users expect this mapping technology to play a huge role in the future of business.Continue Reading

• GraphLab Create looks to scale machine learning to the enterprise

  GraphLab releases new analytics platform to take machine learning techniques to enterprise scale.Continue Reading

• Retailer revs up analytics with cloud storage system

  Cloud storage systems aren't necessarily at the top of every business list for analytic data stores, but one Japanese retailer has experienced success.Continue Reading

• Gazing into the future of predictive analytics ROI

  Companies are investing in the software to gaze into the future and learn more about customers and business opportunities. Is it prophesy -- or fallacy?Continue Reading

• Hadoop 2, YARN set to shake up data management and analytics

  Consultant Wayne Eckerson says Hadoop 2, with its key YARN component, qualifies as a flexible big data operating system. And it could quickly take the open source framework into the IT mainstream, he predicts.Continue Reading

• Swim with the tides of change to visualize data -- and decisions

  Completing a three-part series on his blue ocean strategy for decision visualization, Lee Feinberg explains how you can take decision making to the next level by giving more people access to business intelligence and data visualization capabilities.Continue Reading

• DIY BI: A guide to self-service business intelligence implementation

  The articles in this guide discuss self-service BI's potential benefits and offer tips for successful deployment and management of self-service tools.Continue Reading

• Analytic technology spurs new ways of marketing

  Marketers are embracing analytic technology rapidly, but there are some key decisions they need to make before going all in.Continue Reading