Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jim Swift, CEO of Cortera (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down into this particular use case. What happens? You take the customer database of this logistics provider, and you do a characterization of each of their leads and then you do clustering? Jim Swift: We have as much data on companies as anyone I have ever seen, if not more.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jim Swift, CEO of Cortera (Part 1)

Jim Swift is the chief executive officer of Cortera, a company that provides B2B solutions such as purchase behavior data and business monitoring solutions. Jim studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has many years of experience in database marketing. In this interview, Jim talks in detail about how Cortera provides companies with useful

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in your story? Seth Redmore: The problems – what doesn’t work well. I personally think that is the most fun part. The classic part of text analysis is humor and sarcasm. It is very hard to tell. For example, someone says, “I love the Apple store.” If that is

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What big data applications do you see yourselves being stuck in to? Certain big data applications or big data genres have a certain text analytics component to them. Seth Redmore: So you have a text. That is the first bit. But there is stuff that can be turned into text. That is what

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I think the bottom line is they are not architecturally in a place to handle a dynamic environment. Sasha Gilenson: A truly dynamic environment, yes. Let’s say there is an urgent issue with a particular application. The system administrator runs and accesses the machine to fix the issue; because it is so critical,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At the same time, that raised quite a bit of funding in that area. Is that correct? Sasha Gilenson: Yes. Recently Puppet [Labs], an infrastructure as a code company, which automates infrastructure measurement popped up. They just raised $50 million from VMware. There are many other companies in this space. With the increasing pace

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So you are taking the fire hose of Twitter data for Datasift and contextualizing it, and then your clients do whatever they do on top of that. Seth Redmore: Yes. What you do as an enterprise or entrepreneur is get a feed of data sets that is precisely tailored to your requirements and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few use cases of your partners who are doing interesting applications using your base technology. Seth Redmore: Are you familiar with a company called Bitly? SM: Yes.