Brian Dalessandro, is VP of Data Science at Dstillery, a marketing technology company that looks at the complete consumer journey — both digital and physical — to build custom audiences and activate across any device. In this eighth and final video installment of our conversation around big data and data science, Brian discusses one thing he'd change about data science if he had a magic wand.

Jill Dyche is one of my favorite sources for solid research and digestible writing on technology. She has published a book titled The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age, and it’s receiving a lot of positive press from some very impressive folks. Read More

According to Chris Preimesberger at eWeek, the big question for business intelligence and big data for 2015 is: “How are we going to harness all this information, and do it efficiently, so that the IT we use pays us dividends?” Preimesberger claims that the answer to that question can be found within the predicted trends for 2015. A few of the listed trends are: Read More

In the latest question of the week, Gene De Libero asks the following: “Big data initiatives often need a little more than data crunching, grinding, and algorithms. Sometimes we have to use non-statistical human behavior analysis...or thick data. What's your take on leveraging the human experience on big data initiatives?” Read More