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There is not an Amazon equivalent for organizations in the market for business intelligence tools. They must rely on conducting their own research to find the best tool to suit their needs. Why has not one of the world’s IT experts taken the time to aggregate all BI reviews, software specifications, and other relevant information into one source? Oh, wait, someone did! Software Advice is a Web site where people can read about business intelligence software and select the proper tool for their organization. In the article, “Compare Business Intelligence (BI) Software Tools” there is a rundown of the top ten most recommended business intelligent systems along with an explanation about how there is a growing need for BI software to analyze data and give a user friendly interface.

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2014/01/042014/01/04

Yoda: Nick Romeo in Daily Beast – Big Data Does Not Live Up to the Hype

IO Impotency

Smart, Romeo is.

Why Big Data Doesn’t Live up to the Hype

A new book heralds the promise that big data will reveal more and more about how we live our lives and what we think, but is it really that useful?

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It’s easy to exaggerate the importance of what such a tool could discover. Sometimes it seems the only thing larger than big data is the hype that surrounds it. Within the first 30 pages of Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel manage to compare themselves to Galileo and Darwin and suggest that they, too, are revolutionizing the world. The authors were instrumental in creating the Google Ngram viewer, which allows researchers or anyone else so inclined to explore the changing frequencies of words across time. Likening their creation to a cultural telescope, they proceed to share some of their ostensibly dazzling findings.

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Ultimately, however, Aiden and Michel’s enthusiasm seems best explained by an Ngram that plots the relative frequency of the words “God” and “data.” Data eclipsed God in 1973, and its continuing ascendance suggests a culture that treats it as a surrogate divinity.

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See Also:

Big Data @ Phi Beta Iota

HUMINT @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/01/042014/01/04

Stephen E. Arnold: WikiSummarizer Makes Charts Fun Again

IO Tools

WikiSummarizer Makes Charts Fun Again

Instead of having to read an entire Wikipedia entry or Web site, there is a neat Web tool that aggregates all of the information and displays it in a neat, interactive chart. The WebSummarizer was developed by Context Discovery Inc. to create summaries from Web pages, documents, and plain text. The tool sifts through the information on a Web site and pulls out the most relevant and important information, and then displays it as a visual summary with interactive content maps. Users can download the selected information and export it to a variety of programs such as content managers, databases, and word processes.

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2014/01/032014/01/03

Stephen E. Arnold: Free White Paper on Free Visual Tools

IO Tools

Free White Paper on Free Visual Tools

We recently found a free white paper on free visual tools that can present your information in a free-flowing form. These visual tools offer a way to spice up information presentation. The article, “Guide comparatif des outils gratuits de cartographie de l’information” located at Les Infostrateges summarizes a white paper about five inventive ways to display information.

For our non-French speaking readers, the title roughly translates to “Comparative Guide On Free Mapping Information Tools.” The white paper is located here and like the press release it is in French, but thanks to Google translate (forgive the awkward wording) we can tell you it provides insights into mapping information:

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2014/01/022014/01/02

Jean Lievens: Jack Wallen’s 10 Predictions for Open Source in 2014

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Software

10 predictions for open source in 2014

Jack Wallen lists 10 reasons why he believes 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source.

The year 2013 was a solid year for open source. There were plenty of highs and certainly a few lows. However, I believe that Linux — continuing to build on its solid groundwork — will have the best year yet in 2014.

Some of you may be shaking your heads at yet another prediction of world domination by a Linux zealot. But there are plenty of reasons for such a bold prediction. In fact, here are 10 reasons why I firmly believe 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source:

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1. Open source will dominate corporate data
2. Valve will prompt OEM hardware developers to open up
3. The Linux tablet will finally see the light of day
4. GNOME 3 will become relevant again
5. KDE will release a major game-changing feature
6. MariaDB will begin to make inroads to usurping MySQL
7. Open source will lead the way for smart machines
8. Open source will re-define cloud management
9. Linux desktop will break double-digits in the market share
10. Linux pre-install sales will steadily increase

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See Also:

Open Source Everything List & Book

Open Source Everything @ Phi Beta Iota

NATO OSE/M4IS2 2.0

Open Source Agency (OSA)

Open Source Manifesto

2014/01/022014/01/02

Robin Good: Content Discovery Tools

IO Tools

Where do you find new valuable content for your area of interest? If you are looking for new content, whether in the form of news, articles, video or educational content, I have put together a small directory of tools (170+) and services I have collected over time for my own use, and that can help you greatly in finding the content you need. Organized in over 25 different categories, you can find direct links to what I consider the most useful tools and resources from news and video discovery to RSS tools and alerts.

Content Discovery Tools Directory

1. News Discovery Apps (5)
2. Social News Discovery (5)
3. Video Content Discovery (16)
4. Business Content Discovery (6)
5. Startup & New Tools Discovery (6)
6. Curated General News Sites (5)
7. Educational Learning News Discovery (5)
8. Video Document Discovery (5)
9. Tech News Hubs (9)
10. RSS News Readers (9)
11. Video Search (9)
12. Similar Site Search (13)
13. Quotes Finding Tools (13)
14. Music Discovery (14)
15. Curated Expert Lists (3)
16. Alerts – Persistent Searches (5)
17. Tools & App Discovery Tools (5)
18. Media and Publishing News Hubs (8)
19. Non Mainstream News Media (6)
20. Open Journals (10)
21. Smart Pages (1)
22. Q&A Sites (4)
23. Open Public Data (2)
24. News Monitoring Dashboards (3)
25. Search by Image (2)
26. RSS Search Engines (2)
27. Internet Archive (1)

PRICELESS STARTING POINT. EACH LIST HAS A BUTTON WHERE YOU CAN SUGGEST ADDITIONAL LINKS WITHIN THAT CATEGORY.

Review, Exploit, Contribute Now

See Also:

IO Tools (List & Links)

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