In order to be successful in business, companies generally need to study what their competitors are doing.  But how many companies use competitive intelligence?

Bruno recently sat down with Michael Sandman to discuss what competitive intelligence is.  During this interview, we learn that competitive intelligence isn’t just measuring competitors’ revenues, investments, etc.  Competitive intelligence goes deeper by discovering what’s going on within the organization that’s contributing to these numbers.

Watch the video interview and see real world examples of organizations leveraging competitive intelligence and what they are doing with this data.

Kaggle is one of a number of companies attracting money in the Big Data space.  They recently secured an $11 million round of institutional funding, a significant amount for a first round of money.

Kaggle lets organizations post problems they wish to have solved to the Kaggle website and get user insight from the data by hosting a competition.  While the winners can walk away with cash prizes, even non-winners benefit from participating as they get to see other contestants’ results.  This insight can help non-winners become better data scientists in the process.

Bruno spoke with Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, to hear more about the company and predictive modeling competitions.  Learn how Kaggle stages these competitions in areas ranging from recommending which movies you will like on Netflix to predicting which patients are most likely to visit the hospital in the next year based on anonymous medical record statistics!

Have you ever asked a fellow passenger how much they paid for their airline ticket, only to find out they paid less money and bought it after you did?  Oren Etzioni did, and he was less than pleased with the answers he received.  Instead of getting mad however, he got even and started Farecast to solve the problem of when the best time is to buy tickets.  Now this startup pro is working on solving a different problem for consumers with his latest venture, Decide.com.

Bruno had the opportunity recently to speak with Oren about how Decide.com is using Big Data and sophisticated data mining to help you decide when the optimal time is to purchase your electronic devices.  Watch the episode and learn how businesses are gaining more insight from data to better predict future outcomes!

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This week Bruno sits down with Bernie Brennan, co-author of Branded!  How Retailers Engage Consumers with Social Media and Mobility, and discusses how the customer has been put in the driver’s seat when it comes to retail shopping because of their unprecedented access to vast amounts of data.  Bernie’s mission when he wrote the book was to explain to retailers how they can use this customer access in a positive way instead of worrying about this new level of transparency.  Watch the episode and learn how companies are adapting to the meteoric rise of social media and mobility, making better experiences for customers.

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The recent explosion of social media and mobile has introduced two more channels into the marketing mix, reinforcing the concept known as cross-channel marketing.  Lori Schaffer, co-author of Branded! How Retailers Engage Consumers with Social Media and Mobility, discusses with Bruno how consumer oriented industries are leveraging social media and mobility with existing channels; blurring the lines between each and making it a seamless and consistent experience for consumers.  This growth in channels also contributes to the growing amount of structured and unstructured data that companies must mine; reinforcing the need for business analytics in an effort to better understand what customers want.  Watch the video to learn more!

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Berkeley Bionics has a mission. They want to help people become better humans. Through great advances in bionics, Berkeley Bionics is using data to help people walk again and carry heavy loads with ease. Catch the latest BITV interview with CEO Eythor Bender as he discusses with Bruno how data and bionics are powering the next wave of human advances!

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When you wake up in the morning, do you feel refreshed or are you constantly tired?  There are a number of companies working on analyzing sleep quality, and this week we talk with Ben Rubin, CTO and Co-Founder of Zeo.  Because Zeo has been tackling this problem for some time, they have amassed the largest database of sleep quality in the world.  They are using this data not only to help improve sleep quality overall, but also analyzing it for other scientific purposes.  Watch the video and see how measuring analytics in your sleep might help you in the enterprise!

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Self-tracking and personal analytics are areas of data collection that have seen tremendous growth over the past few years.  This growth has spurred new companies such as Quantter that seek to aid individuals in the data collection process.  Bruno sat down recently with Denis Harscoat, the Co-Founder of Quantter, to get his take on the area of personal analytics and how it applies to the enterprise.  Watch the video and see how this open platform is encouraging innovation in tracking and visualization!

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We’ve all had that memory from our past that we can’t quite recall all the details of no matter how hard we try. This week, we talk with Jim Gemmell, co-author of Your Life, Uploaded, who tells us why this won’t continue to be a problem in the near future. With data storage getting cheaper by the day, the rapid adoption of self-measurement and recording devices, and software to organize this data, humans will have the ability to record virtually every aspect of their life if they choose to. In essence, we will be able to access our lives with the click of a button.

Bruno discusses with Jim the explosion of cheap data storage, implications on our personal lives, and how it will allow companies to measure and store aspects of their business that weren’t previously imaginable. They even discuss new and innovative ways of finding the millions of documents we now store with search terms “find all documents saved on days when the temperature outside exceeded 90 degrees!” Watch our latest video and learn more about how big data collection and correlation can help your business!

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