Category Archives: Interviews

The CDO Interview: Digital Transformation at CVS Health

Posted on July 13, 2015 by GilPress

CVS Health has recently opened a new Digital Innovation Lab in Boston. Enabling digital access to healthcare and related services anytime and anywhere is a key component in the company’s transformation into a multi-faceted healthcare provider. CVS also announced plans to expand its … Continue reading →

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The Web at 25: Tim Berners-Lee on the Web of Data

Posted on March 11, 2014 by GilPress

In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Web, Jason Rubin and I talked to Tim Berners-Lee about his invention and its future, the Semantic Web, which he described as “the Web of data.” Twenty years on, … Continue reading →

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SiSense: Scaling Users, Not Data

Posted on November 4, 2013 by GilPress

In a new Saturday Night Live sketch, “Secretary Sebelius” explains that HealthCare.gov is so slow because it was designed to handle only six users at a time. We’ve become accustomed to everything online slowing down with additional users, but SiSense last week announced the … Continue reading →

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SAS CTO on Big Data and Big Compute

Posted on September 16, 2013 by GilPress

“One of my biggest challenges,” Keith Collins told me recently, “is helping SAS understand how to communicate to IT organizations. We present workloads which look odd and different. IT does not know how to have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) around them.  … Continue reading →

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Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Posted on March 18, 2013 by GilPress

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, authors of the just-published Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think,  reacted sharply when I asked them if they are cheerleaders for big data, as one reviewer implied. ”We … Continue reading →

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The Data Science Interview: Mingsheng Hong, Hadapt

Posted on September 5, 2012 by GilPress

Data scientists are data junkies—when they see a new data set they are just naturally excited and can’t wait to explore. Mingsheng Hong is Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt, a Boston-based startup that offers an analytical platform that integrates structured and unstructured … Continue reading →

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The Big Data Interview: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO, EMC

Posted on July 30, 2012 by GilPress

If data sits on a desk somewhere and is not being used, it’s an opportunity wasted Sanjay Mirchandani believes IT has to take the lead in adding value to the business in the form of big data “addictive analytics.” Mirchandani … Continue reading →

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The Data Science Interview: Edwin Chen, Twitter

Posted on July 2, 2012 by GilPress

I don’t do pure research—my analysis enables real-world functionality Currently mining terabytes of tweets as a data scientist with Twitter, Edwin Chen studied math and linguistics at MIT and then crunched numbers at Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium Capital Management. … Continue reading →

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The Data Science Interview: Yun Xiong, Fudan University

Posted on June 30, 2012 by GilPress

The Goal of Data Science is to Study the Phenomena and Laws of Datanature Yun Xiong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science and Dataology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. … Continue reading →

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The Data Science Interview: Mok Oh, PayPal

Posted on June 12, 2012 by GilPress

To Do Data Science, You Need a Team of Specialists Currently the Chief Scientist at PayPal, Mok Oh came on board when eBay acquired WHERE, where he was Chief Innovation Officer.  Prior to WHERE, Mok founded EveryScape, a data visualization … Continue reading →

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