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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 5)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 15th

Sramana Mitra: This is obviously a serious issue, and there are people working on it already. Who is working on it and who has good ideas? JR Reagan: The good work is happening all over the place. You see the National Labs in the U.S. and other government organizations outside the U.S. that are doing

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 15th

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like this is a use case that is something you could do for many other verticals because this includes energy costs savings, for example, which most companies with facilities tend to need. Chris Carter: That is correct. We have been able to take that specific use case and move it to

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 4)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 14th

Sramana Mitra: What do you think is the state of the union vis-à-vis visualization technologies? I heard from several people that there are gaps in visualization technologies. You are saying you are primarily using open source technologies, and you have developed your own internal framework. Talk about what is driving those choices and what you

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 13th

Chris Carter is the chief executive officer of Approyo, a company specializing in big data analytics. He is also member of the SAP Startup Focus Program, and a premium member of the 1M/1M program. In this interview Chris talks about Approyo’s view on big data and presents several use cases from various industry verticals, specifying

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 3)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 13th

Sramana Mitra: Your lab is now basically one that specializes in data visualization across different verticals. JR Reagan: Yes. With innovation, we started getting called in to being more than just analytics. Now we are asked to come up with the next idea around the use of certain technologies in different ways – 3-D printing,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 2)

Posted on Monday, Aug 12th

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take use cases of real customer problems and how you are using large-scale visualization to add value to those problems and generate solutions. JR Reagan: One unique problem we thought was interesting comes from one of the large global retailers. Around the time of Hurricane Irene [in August 2011] they called us

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 11th

JR Reagan is the chief innovation officer for the federal practice at Deloitte Services. He teaches innovation and creativity at John Hopkins University and holds a masters in management information systems from Bowie State University and a BA in sociology from the State University of New York. In this interview he talks about Deloitte’s creative

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rajat Paharia, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Gamification Leader Bunchball (Part 6)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 4th

Sramana Mitra: From an industry point of view, when you look around at what people are doing or trying to do, what is missing from the landscape? Rajat Paharia: If you are running a business or are a manager of a business, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon all probably know more about your employees than you

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