Let’s find out what big data is and how it should be analyzed to improve businesses.
Many companies now permanently use actions such as competitive analysis and market research with the goal of having more control over their business and their target market.
To carry out such research, of course, it is essential to have access to the data present online, as increasing digitization has made the line between online and offline increasingly thin.
The Web, as I’m sure you know, is the place where people express their thoughts in a completely sincere and unfiltered manner, and that is where the importance of big data comes from.
Are you a manager or entrepreneur eager to put this information to work for your business?
Read on to learn how to use online data to your advantage!
How big data is generated and collected.
Hearing today about big data as a future opportunity for business development is quite inappropriate.
In fact, even now it is unthinkable in a digitized world to venture into any kind of business without making use of a clear and reliable source of information such as that offered by online big data.
Our market research agency knows this well, as every day we are contacted by business entities of all kinds eager to conduct in-depth market analysis through access to big data.
The positive aspects of big data are many for a company or freelancer aiming to develop a profitable business that is always up to date.
To be in control of it is to put oneself at a distinct advantage over a competitor who relies only on internal data and past experience.
That is probably what you are aiming for.
But what exactly is big data?
To give you a simple explanation, big data is all that data set generated online by millions of users through searches, interactions, and actions of various kinds. Every time a digital device is used for even the most mundane of actions, such as a “like” on social, new data is generated.
Thus, it is evident how big data are constantly evolving and being updated, as new ones are created every second. By virtue of this, it is obvious that in order for them to be made accessible to big data analysts, they need to be retained.
Yes, but how and where?
Big data storage is managed by data centers located everywhere, and these are continuously updated. Of course, digital data storage comes at a significant cost. We are talking about very expensive and energy-intensive equipment.
This explains why software that makes big data analysis tools available to users has monthly quotas of thousands.
But now let’s see how the data are studied!
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Big Data analysis: here’s how it happens.
Two main things are needed to carry out data analysis:
- the right tools;
- skills.
By tools we mean all the software that is designed and made to be able to track and then analyze data. So many of these kinds of software have been developed.
We at Central Marketing Intelligence alone have tested about a thousand of them over the years so that we could see which ones guaranteed the best performance in relation to the context of use.
We can identify three types of data analysis software:
- There are the software that tracks and creates data, such as those that go into analyzing the results related to a site’s traffic, in that they perform tracking as users browse on it and create data that subsequently remains saved.
- Then there is the software dedicated to actual data analysis. They use artificial intelligence systems and process data. An example would be natural language algorithms, which go to focus on words used by users and determine based on them the trend of an opinion related to a product or company.
- Another kind of software is visualization software. These are those programs that make information visible even to non-technical people, so they act almost as simplifying or translating data.
Of course, to make effective and reasoned use of data, it is unthinkable to act without specific expertise in the field. It would be like thinking that to be able to fly all you need is a plane.
In fact, there are very specific professionals who are dedicated to the study and analysis of data, and who can offer you the opportunity to take important actions for your business based on certain information.
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In conclusion.
If you aspire to gain control over your business through the use of big data, we at Central Marketing Intelligence have several solutions for you.
In fact, you can rely on our advice and start a partnership with our agency to get the information you need, or you can decide to train through our CMI Academy.
For any clarification or information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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