Microsoft set to acquire LinkedIn - What it would mean for the world!

Microsoft, recently made announcement about acquisition of LinkedIn - world's largest business-oriented social networking service. This $26.2 billion deal is expected to impact each and every professional across the globe. Read in more detail about certain expected possibilities from this deal, which made us think of it as exaggeration. 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-set-acquire-linkedin-what-means-world-vishal-soni?published=u 

Power BI Webinar: Bring your data to life

Explore the potential of analytics and visualization using Microsoft Power BI
06 May 2016 | Time: 03:00 PM IST
The webinar focuses on creating awareness about what Microsoft Power BI is and its potential in data discovery, analysis and visualization. The session also aims at creating awareness about Power BI User Group India (India-PUG) and introduce you to the world of Power BI ecosystem, and how it can be used in intelligent and creative ways to accomplish business goals.
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Live Webinar on Big Data Technology Stack - Basics

Details about the FREE Webcast on Big Data Technology Stack

Webcast Topic: Big Data basics and Discussion about Big Data Technology Stack

Organized by: Omni212

Presented by: Vishal Soni

When: Dec 8 2015, 9:30 to 10:30 IST (Indian Standard Time), which is Tue, Dec 8, 2015 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Location: Online (using your computer, laptop tablet or smartphone).

How: You will need to install GoToMeeting on your device, and then on specified time, join the meeting using below code: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/213904341

You can also dial in using your phone.United States : +1 (408) 650-3123

How to see number of LinkedIn followers for any member?

How to see number of LinkedIn followers for any member?

By default, LinkedIn shows number of connections on the public profile page of any LinkedIn member. But when number of connections are more than 500, it displays value as 500+.
I was wondering if it was possible to see exact number of followers (which is considered equal to number of connections).
The processes is easy, but i have seen people struggling for getting this done, so thought of writing the steps with screenshots to help out everyone. (I myself din't knew it, thanks to Sourabh.Jain for helping me out with this).

Here is the simplest way of doing this:

1) Log in into your LinkedIn account.

2) In the search box at the top of screen, Search for the person whom followers you wish to see.

3) On the public profile page, click on the drop down menu, and select 'View recent activity'

4) The activity page will show the total number of followers of that person.

Top-Big-Data-Quotes

It flows like this:
1) You set your priorities.
2) You collect data
3) Based on data you take decision to meet priorities.
Analytics helps in step 3. While Big Data helps in step 1.


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"Analytics helps you in taking a right decision, while Big Data tells why should you take a decision at all"

Big Data Training - Uncover the potential of data

Businesses are keen to adopt Big Data to unleash hidden insights from wealth of digital data. But wonder where to start!

Advaiya presents two days Big Data training for IT professionals on May 9-10, 2015 at Udaipur

Big Data demand will generate 4.4 million jobs in the IT Industry all around the world, but due to lack of skills in the individuals only 1/3rd of these jobs will be fulfilled. - Gartner

Understand Big Data concepts and latest technologies with hands-on exercises and real life business case studies Join this action packed training to develop Big Data skills with industry experts

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Buzzing the Big Data Buzzer

The Big Buzz around Big Data is turning out into a new phenomenon. Big Data, which fundamentally deals with enormous volume, velocity and variety of data, has itself generated huge volumes of data (in form of blogs, articles, infographics, videos, and many more formats) across all channels and networks. And this is growing very rapidly, resulting further into generation of more data. Literally, trends shows that the term Big Data has gained too much popularity in past few years.

Figure 1. Google trends showing results for word 'Big Data'

And even more interesting statistics would be that the word ‘Big Data’ on google search returns around 44,100,000 results (on 6th Oct 2014). (Source: Google.com)

So besides the increase in number of people interested in Big Data, these facts also corresponds that the digital activities around Big Data would be generating more number of clicks, page views, web logs and all sorts of structured and unstructured chunks of information increasing the digital content around Big Data. These would be further analyzed by number of analysts and data scientists, creating more number of jobs, and relevant trainings, articles, and all sorts of digital content.

In a way, Big Data boom may be fulfilling its own prophesy.

Here are some key facts about Big Data.

Big Data Universal Statistics:

• 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created daily.  90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone (Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/what-is-big-data.html )

Benefits solving Real Life Problems:

• Healthcare: 20% decrease in patient mortality by analyzing streaming patient data 
• Telco: 92% decrease in processing time by analyzing networking and call data
• Utilities: 99% improved accuracy in placing power generation resources by analyzing 2.8 petabytes of untapped data (Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/industry.html )

Big Data Future Predictions:

• By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States (Source: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2207915 )

References:

http://marciaconner.com/blog/data-on-big-data/

 http://wikibon.org/blog/big-data-statistics/

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240111798/Analysts-Data-visualization-tools-key-to-big-data-analytics-success

http://www.bigdata-startups.com/think-bigger-developing-a-successful-big-data-strategy-for-your-business/