Using Data to Empower an eCommerce business

This article from +Practical Ecommerce goes through some ways to use data to empower an eCommerce business.

You could also analyse baskets - how many were updated, how many were converted into actual orders, Are any baskets modified before being converted into orders and what are those changes (remove items, change quantities, etc.)

You could analyse customers - are there more than one customer at the same physical address, are here more than one customer with the same contact telephone number etc.?

Do customers go to your competitiors web sites after visiting you?

Big Profits in Big Data

This article on +Energy and Capital discusses the large profits that are possible through Big Data.

It uses the MasterCard example of what is possible with Big Data real time.

Unsolicited data scientists solving your problems without using your data

I love this post by +Vincent Granville on Data Science Central.  In the top part he looks at the problems experienced if you post to LinkedIn regularly, but he has links to to other problems that need answers further down the page.

With reference to the discussion about estimating the number of bogus accounts on Facebook there is no mention of the various games played on FB.  I know that many people that play them have multiple accounts in order to help as many FB friends as they can.

17 White Papers on Data Science

In this post on +Big Data Made Simple they give you links to 17 White papers on Data Science.

I particularly like #13 - From Data Scientist to Data Artist. :-)

Data Governance for Big Data - Dataguise to launch a suite to do just that

In this item on +eWEEK.com they cover the announcement that +Dataguise, Inc. will launch a suite to cover Data Governance for Big Data.  We'll just have to wait and see how it's received and how well it does that job.

Fast Data - the next step after Big Data?

In this article from +InfoWorld by John Hugg of Volt DB he talks about processing data as it arrives which can be done via open source software by Apache's Storm (Twitter) or Kafka (LinkedIn).

It definitely makes since for such large volumes of data to process it as you add it to the database.

SQL Server Updateable Column Store Indexes

There are two posts of note for Updateable Column Store Indexes which are available in SQL Server.

This blog entry from the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog takes you though some of the concepts.

This blog from Rusanu Consulting is a handy Q&A on  them.

Between the two of them I think they give a great grounding in them so you can use them better.