According to a Nielsen report, brick-and-mortar alcohol dollar sales were up 21% in April 2020 compared to the same period a year ago. Online alcohol sales skyrocketed by 234% over the same period in 2019. However, despite the increase, global sales are decreasing due to the shutdowns in restaurants, bars, live events and travel. Next Century Spirits is a liquor technology startup with $9.6 M in funding. The company uses big data and machine learning to create and filter bespoke…
A press release on September 22, 2020 announced the publication of “COVID-19 and Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose” by KKS Advisors and the Test of Corporate Purpose (TCP) initiative. TCP was founded by Mark Tulay. I co-chaired this effort with Hiro Mizuno, former Chief Investment Officer of Government Pension Investment Fund, and Sacha Sadan, Director of Corporate Governance and board member of Legal & General Investment Management. The report is based on global survey by GlobeScan of 561 individuals and…
We can all agree on one thing: nobody likes to wait. When we go to the airport, we like our flights to be on time, and when we head to the grocery store, we want our ripe avocados to be in stock. Businesses don’t like to wait either: time is money. If a store is running low on avocados, the business wants to know as soon as possible, so they can get the restock process…
Big data analytics is the often complex process of examining big data to uncover information — such as hidden patterns, correlations, market trends and customer preferences — that can help organizations make informed business decisions. On a broad scale, data analytics technologies and techniques provide a means to analyze data sets and take away new information—which can help organizations make informed business decisions. Business intelligence (BI) queries answer basic questions about business operations and performance. Big data analytics is…
Bill Loconzolo, vice president of data engineering at Intuit, jumped into a data lake with both feet. Dean Abbott, the chief data scientist at Smarter Remarketer, made a beeline for the cloud. The leading edge of big data and analytics, which includes data lakes for holding vast stores of data in its native format and, of course, cloud computing, is a moving target, both say. And while the technology options are far from mature, waiting…
Big Data and Analytics frameworks are quick rising as one of the most basic framework in an association’s IT condition. Yet, with such an immense measure of information, there come numerous exhibition challenges. On the off chance that Big Data frameworks can’t be utilized to settle on or gauge basic business choices, or give experiences into business esteems covered up under gigantic measures of information at the ideal time, at that point these frameworks lose…
