From detecting anomalies to understanding what are the key elements in a network, or highlighting communities, graph analytics reveal information that would otherwise remain hidden in your data. We will see how to integrate your graph analytics with Linkurious Enterprise to detect and investigate insights in your connected data.

What is graph analytics

Definition and…

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ECommerce fraud is growing quickly, creating new challenges in terms of prevention and detection. As merchants gather more and more information about customers and their behaviors, the key element in the fight against fraud is now to draw on the connections within the data collected to uncover fraudulent behaviors. In this post we explain why and how graph technologies are crucial in the detection of eCommerce fraud.…

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The European Union is giving free access to detailed information about public purchasing contracts. That data describes which European institutions are spending money, for what and who benefits from it. We are going to explore the network of public institutions and suppliers and look for interesting patterns with graph visualization.

Public spending in Europe is a €1.3 trillion business

Every year, more than …

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Data lineage is about tracking the flow of information. It is necessary to guarantee the quality, usability and security of your data. For large organizations, it is also a key conformity requirement. With Linkurious, it is possible to use a graph-based approach to solve these challenges.

What is data lineage?

The success of an organization depends on the quality, usability and security of its data. Want to provide amazing support to your customer? Create new products…

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NASA is using big data to make complex knowledge more readily available. Learn how graph visualization can help turn large corpus of documents into concrete insights.

A database of lessons learned

Even in a mature and knowledge-driven organization like NASA, finding an answer to a common business issue can be frustrating. Past surveys at NASA have shown that most people have trouble finding the…

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Fraud detection is all about connecting the dots. We are going to see how to use graph analysis to identify stolen credit cards and fake identities. For the purpose of this article we have worked with Ralf Becher, irregular.bi. Ralf is Qlik Luminary and he provides solutions to integrate the Graph approach into Business Intelligence solutions like QlikView and Qlik Sense.

Third party fraud in retail

Third party fraud occurs when a…

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Ever wondered why certain countries have certain colors in their flags, why it has certain symbols and what are the different patterns?

We started digging through, checking a Wikipedia article on this topic.

This was a good start but we wanted to go deeper so we manually started eye balling each flag to understand the patterns and symbols.

We needed to figure out…

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A Tool That Grants Independence to Business Users

We all know the constant struggle between IT and business users when it comes to BI software: Business users want to access data in order to make fast decisions independently, without having to use IT as a middle man every time a new requirement arises, query is run, or data is added. Yet, IT is overwhelmed by constantly changing requests and requirements, and struggle to deliver data in an actionable time-frame. The…

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If I told you all of our modern activities–posts to social media sites, transaction records, online activities, digital pictures and videos, and mobile GPS signals to name a few– leave a trail of data behind that is estimated to produce about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, would you have a real feel for how much data that is? Even if I defined that number more clearly as 1 followed by 18 zeros, many tech veterans and savvy business leaders still have trouble digesting the scope of…

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If you have your eyes set on running a company someday, you may wonder what skills you need to cultivate now, as well as the best age to make a run for the position. Well, we took data from the LinkedIn profiles of close to 1 million CEOs in the United States, and gained some great data intelligence using a business analytics software. Here’s your chance to learn what it takes to get that corner office as well as see how crunching big data of the head honchos can offer great…

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I'm starting a new series of tutorials for beginners to learn web visualization. My tutorials help bridge the gap to d3.js visualization. It's intended to teach audience the concepts of Javascript applicable for data visualizations.

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We’ve just wrapped up another eventful season of the annual phenomenon that is the Indian Premier League. Records were broken, trophies and caps won, and careers and fortunes made in a span of 6 high-octane weeks.  Fans, being the lifeblood of any successful sporting event, were given extra-special attention this time around. The millions of tweets that social-media savvy fans across India tweeted during the tournament formed a veritable growing corpus of social content that was used through…

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Introduction

Each county within a state in the US maintains strict accounting standards with regards to cash inflows and outflows namely revenue and expenses. There are various funds institutionalized to serve this purpose for various categories such as education, energy, environment, health and human services, housing and community development etc. The governmental fund concept means that:

• The fund is an independent fiscal…

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DISCOVER.DECIDE.DO. - The Future of Business Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics - will be the largest, most impactful virtual event of the year to help you turn data into action.…

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check out how the generation fuel mix profile changes from winter months to summer months. 

nicely analysed and visualized at 

Generation Fuel Mix

A recent article entitled "Nate Silver on big data's future: It's about attitude" appeared on fcw.com (The Business of Federal Technology).   The full article along with the points made below can be read here:

http://www.scoop.it/t/big-data-technology-applications-and-analytics

In the meantime, what came to mind has to do with different analytic approaches being used together to solve a…

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Read the Preface for Siegel’s Book – Predictive Analytics

Here is the preface for Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

By Eric Siegel, with a foreword from Tom Davenport

(Wiley, February 2013)

 

To order the book:…

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Big Data Spain 2012 Conference Online www.bigdataspain.org 

Madrid 16 November, Spain

Check the speakers, call for sessions, and more... about data mining, machine learning, data analytics, data visualization, and technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Apache Solr & Lucene, MapReduce, HBase, NoSQL...

Big speakers confirmed and more coming soon... 

Send us your proposal, Call for Sessions until 15 September.

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Abstract

Businesses have a large and growing need to analyze data. This is no easy task today with the exploding volumes of data pouring in from everywhere, and the enormous pressure to turn these mountains of data into information that can be acted upon quickly.



It is no surprise that organizations spend over $15B annually on Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining technologies. But with all of the focus on infrastructure technologies, there is little emphasis on the… Continue