BIG DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION

This report stemmed from a World Bank pilot activity to explore the potential of big data to address development challenges in Central American countries. As part of this activity we collected and analyzed a number of examples of leveraging big data for development. Because of the growing interest in this topic this report makes available to a broader audience those examples as well as the underlying conceptual framework to think about big data for development.

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Think Big Analytics, Inc.

About Think Big Analytics: Think Big Analytics is purpose-built to enable customers to create value from Big Data. The company provides data science and engineering services to assemble custom applications that deliver business outcomes. Think Big collaborates with leaders to prioritize initiatives and generate value quickly with its proven "test and learn" methodology. The company was founded by former Quantcast and C-Bridge executives and is based in Mountain View, CA.

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The Evolution of Data 3.0

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Today, massive amounts of data are collected, processed, and stored for a range of analytical purposes around the world. Every customer, device, transaction, email, and image leaves a data trail. At present, this data is growing too big, changing too fast, and becoming hyper distributed. The traditional ways of doing integration and analytics are no longer viable or scalable. It is not feasible to create millions of data pipelines and to continue moving large amounts of raw data to a data lake or a centralized data warehouse.

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Agility in Data Management

whitePaper | June 8, 2023

The importance of data in achieving successful business outcomes cannot be emphasized enough in this digital era. Businesses in recent times have embarked on digital transformation as they strive to keep existing customers happy while creating opportunities for new ones. It is worth noting that investments in data related concepts have soared, making data concepts such as data analytics, machine learning, interpretation of structured and unstructured data highly prevalent as these enable fast decision making for business agility.

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Dell PowerMax 2500 and 8500 Best Practices for Mission Critical SQL Server Databases

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

The new PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage systems with PowerMaxOS 10 feature some of the most advanced performance, data protection, data reduction, and data mobility servicing enterprise workloads and applications. The new PowerMax systems come with large DRAM for user data and persistent memory for metadata, end-to-end NVMe, 100 Gbit RDMA fabric, real-time machine learning, 64-bit native file services, seamless cloud mobility, and ability to deliver millions of IOPS at submillisecond latency.

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Using Alation to Accelerate Your Active Data Governance

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

In Data Governance Methodology, we described why a modern active data governance methodology is superior to a traditional top-down methodology and how active data governance is supported by continuous improvement. We also discussed how a data governance process based on continuous improvement is a key component of a DataOps process.

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Active Data Governance Methodology

whitePaper | February 10, 2022

Modern data governance leaders are searching for the role that governance should play in delivering high-quality data.

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A blueprint for data-driven insights

whitePaper | August 20, 2021

While finding and creating insights can often feel like luck, there are proven methodologies you can use to ensure you’re seeing regular insight from your on-hand data. Access this short e-book to learn how you can start seeing regular, valuable insight success from you big data and analytics investments.

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Spotlight

Think Big Analytics, Inc.

About Think Big Analytics: Think Big Analytics is purpose-built to enable customers to create value from Big Data. The company provides data science and engineering services to assemble custom applications that deliver business outcomes. Think Big collaborates with leaders to prioritize initiatives and generate value quickly with its proven "test and learn" methodology. The company was founded by former Quantcast and C-Bridge executives and is based in Mountain View, CA.

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