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May 21, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Datamining, Analytics, Data Dredging, Database Analytics, Datamine, Data-mining DEFINITION: Data dredging, sometimes referred to as "data fishing" is a data mining practice in which large volumes of data are analyzed seeking any possible relationships between data. The traditional scientific method, in contrast, begins with a hypothesis and follows with an examination of the data. Sometimes conducted for unethical purposes, data dredging often circumvents traditional data mining … Definition continues below.
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High-Performance Analytics ServerWhat Could You Do with Faster, Better Answers?Transform Your Organization and Gain Competitive Advantage sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a high-performance analytics server that takes complex jobs and reduces the time it takes to analyze billions of records of data, delivering results in a fraction of the time required by traditional computing environments. Posted: 26 Mar 2013 \| Published: 26 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Profiling \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization

Analyze Huge Volumes of Demand Data for Integrated, Real-Time Decision Making sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This resource introduces a new data management platform that allows you to quickly collect, aggregate, and analyze market and demand data in order to drive better decision making in sales, marketing, your supply chain, and the rest of your enterprise. Posted: 20 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Content Management \| Content Management Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Information Governance \| Information Management \| SAP (Product) \| Supply Chain Management

Better Results with Better Information Governance sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This infographic explains how the growing volume and variety of information in your organization is inhibiting decision-making, operational efficiency, and risk management, and demonstrates how better information governance paves the way for success. Posted: 20 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Security \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Information Management (EIM) \| Information Governance \| Information Management \| Information Security \| SAP (Product)

Keys to Successfully Executing an Enterprise Analytics Strategy: Common Pitfalls and Best Practices for IT Executives sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: Count down the five essential components of a successful analytics initiative by consulting this resource today. Inside, uncover analytics best practices as well as common pitfalls to avoid – read on to get started today. Posted: 18 Mar 2013 \| Published: 15 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Enterprise Computing \| Predictive Analytics

Bringing Together ESB and Big Data sponsored by Talend WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how enterprise service buses (ESBs) can drive the success of big data initiatives by integrating data from disparate systems securely and reliably. Inside, learn how ESBs can help you realize the full potential of big data and boost business performance. Posted: 15 Mar 2013 \| Published: 15 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| ESB \| SOA

Data Visualization: Making Big Data Approachable and Valuable sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the limitations of existing big data collection and analysis tools, and explains how data visualization can help your organization more easily realize the full potential of big data. Posted: 15 Mar 2013 \| Published: 15 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Collection \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Visualization \| Data Visualization Software

Journal of Advanced Analytics sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: This journal offers informative articles that cover nearly all aspects of big data analytics. Discover best practices for implementing a big data analytics program, how to tackle typical big data challenges, and take lessons from companies that have succeeded in their efforts. Posted: 15 Mar 2013 \| Published: 15 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Collection \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Unstructured Data

Visual Analytics: Visually Explore Your Data for Better, Faster Insights sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how your organization can visually explore your data for better, faster insights, create reports and share results to the Web and mobile devices. Posted: 14 Mar 2013 \| Published: 14 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Classification \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Mining \| Data Recovery

Game-Changing AnalyticsHow IT Executives Can Use Analytics to Create Innovation and Business Success sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, explore the changing role of the CIO and the importance of speed of knowledge in the new data economy. See how CIOs can drive analytics platforms to add value to their companies. Posted: 13 Mar 2013 \| Published: 13 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization

Data equity Unlocking the value of big data sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: To manage the ever-growing volume, variety and velocity of data, organizations are looking for analytics solutions specific to big data. This white paper explores a study that measured the economic benefits (also known as data equity) that enterprises can gain by unlocking the insights available from big data analytics. Posted: 12 Mar 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Economic Environment \| Risk Management \| Unstructured Data

The Evolution of Decision Making:How Leading Organizations Are Adopting a Data-Driven Culture sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this report from the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, examine the survey data and responses from hundreds of executives, managers, and professionals across the globe about their changing decision-making processes and BI/analytics tools. Posted: 11 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Logistics \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality

Big data Lessons from the leaders sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: This report compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit explores how far along companies are in terms of their data management journey, and how they can gain the best insights from the mass amounts of data that are entering their businesses. Posted: 11 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Collection \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Web 2.0

A complete solution designed to meet the full spectrum of enterprise data integration needs sponsored by SAS Institute Inc. WHITE PAPER: To help enterprises tackle obstacles surrounding large-volume data in a timely and cost-effective manner, data management systems offer ways to manage data integration projects on a larger, enterprise-level scale. This white paper introduces a toolkit designed to meet the full spectrum of enterprise data integration needs. Posted: 11 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data at Rest \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality

Self-Service Business Intelligence: Empowering Users to Generate Insights sponsored by Dell Software Group WHITE PAPER: This in-depth report examines the four main objectives of any successful self-service BI environment which enable BI users to become more self-reliant and less dependent on the IT organization. Read on for practical recommendations for how you can achieve a successful SS BI environment in your enterprise. Posted: 07 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Cloud Computing \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Warehouses \| Self-Service Applications Software

Visual Discovery Tools sponsored by SearchBusinessAnalytics WHITE PAPER: Visual discovery tools help enable business users to access and analyze data with minimal assistance from the IT department. Consult this white paper to learn more about who the target users of visual discovery tools are and how they help analyze data in a variety of systems. Posted: 04 Mar 2013 \| Published: 04 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Market Segments \| Market Trends \| Online Analytical Processing Council

Introducing production into performance testing sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This resource outlines common performance testing challenges and describes how collaboration between performance testing teams and production monitoring teams can ensure the true continuous delivery of application performance. Posted: 01 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Data Mining \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Project Management \| Software Testing

Four Key Pillars To A Big Data Management Solution sponsored by Talend WHITE PAPER: This resource explores an open source approach and flexible big data integration platform that addresses these challenges and enables users to easily connect and analyze data from disparate systems to help drive and improve business performance. Posted: 25 Feb 2013 \| Published: 25 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Unstructured Data

How Big is Big Data Adoption? sponsored by Talend WHITE PAPER: This survey expands on the big data technology discussion and explores big data adoption challenges, business objectives and benefits, as well as big data technologies being used. Continue on to discover the big data business drivers, who is in charge, and what the benefits are to your business. Posted: 22 Feb 2013 \| Published: 22 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Unstructured Data

Managing the Explosion of Medical Data sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: This timely white paper takes an in-depth look at the enormous growth of health care data and offers ways to overcome the challenges associated with it. Specifically, uncover how you can manage and secure the increasingly large data sets every organization is coping with. Posted: 22 Feb 2013 \| Published: 15 Nov 2012 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Collection \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Health Care Applications Software \| Health Care Compliance \| Health Care Industry \| Health Care Networking \| Health Care Security \| Health Care Storage \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Medical Practice Management \| Medical Records Management

Datasheet: Kitenga Analytics Suite sponsored by Quest Software, now a part of Dell WHITE PAPER: See how you can easily extract unprecedented amounts of actionable information from your big data universe in this short datasheet. You'll find out how much simpler your job could be with the industry's first big data search and analytics platform to integrate information modeling and visualization. Read the datasheet. Posted: 14 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Unstructured Data \| Web 2.0

Taking Advantage of Big Data Analytics sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In order to plan and implement a successful big data analytics project, an organization needs to consider a range of different technologies and determine what kind of architecture it is going to deploy.This in-depth resource will put you on the right path to tailoring a big data project right for your organization. Posted: 14 Feb 2013 \| Published: 14 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Unstructured Data

Social Media Analytics: How to dramatically improve the capabilities within your organization sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Much of the potential from social efforts isn't fully realized due to an underinvestment in, or misunderstanding of, social analytics. This resource will help you advance your understanding and capabilities in social analytics. Continue on to learn the keys to your social analytics success and explore the four phases of a complete social strategy: Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 11 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Web 2.0

Social Media Analytics - Making Customer Insights Actionable sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper will examine the role social media can play in presenting a more strategic view of customer data and how the right combination of technologies can deliver insight to help companies more effectively meet perpetually shifting consumer demands expressed through, and influenced by, these dynamic communication channels. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2011 TOPICS: CRM \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Web 2.0

IBM Social Analytics: The science behind social media marketing sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how savvy marketing professionals are using new technologies to learn about their customers' attitudes, preferences and buying habits from what they say publically, available on social media and through the full range of interactions that can be recorded, measured, and analyzed. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Web 2.0

Achieving customer loyalty with customer analytics sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how you can build strong customer relationships in this age of social media and maintain loyal customers who will not only provide you with their valuable business, but also share their enthusiasm online with their peers. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Oct 2012 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| Data Mining \| Web 2.0

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DATA MINING DEFINITION (continued): … techniques and may lead to premature conclusions. Data dredging is sometimes described as "seeking more information from a data set than it actually contains." Data dredging sometimes results in relationships between variables announced as significant when, in fact, the data require more study before such an association can legitimately be determined. Many variables may be related through chance alone; others may be related through some unknown factor. To make a valid assessment of the relationship between any two variables, further study is required in which isolated variables are contrasted …
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