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Alistair Croll
Alistair is a founding partner at startup accelerator Year One Labs and an analyst at Bitcurrent. He has a background in strategic marketing and product management, along with an unhealthy interest in emerging technologies and human-machine convergence. He's spent the last 15 years building startups like Coradiant, writing books on web monitoring and Internet performance, and running events like Bitnorth and CloudConnect. 
Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with dataA glimpse into enterprise use of big data.
Feedback from a recent Strata Online Conference suggests there's a large demand for clear information on what big data is and how it will change business.
The feedback economyCompanies that employ data feedback loops are poised to dominate their industries.
We're moving beyond an information economy. The efficiencies and optimizations that come from constant and iterative feedback will soon become the norm for businesses and governments.
Cooking the dataIn a world of full disclosure, cooking the data is the new cooking the books.
Open data and transparency aren't enough: we need True Data, not Big Data, as well as regulators and lawmakers willing to act on it.
The Meat to Math ratioThe ability to augment people (meat) with data and processes (math) is a key to success.
Successful companies find ways to augment their employees, allowing them to operate at scale with customers. Big data, machine learning, and an iterative, experimental mindset are essential — and increasingly, company valuations are tied to the efficiency with which firms put information to work.
There's no such thing as big dataEven if you have petabyes of data, you still need to know how to ask the right questions to apply it.
Today's big companies are losing to small upstarts simply because those firms ask better questions. To compete, large enterprises need to learn how to harvest the data they have on customers, markets, competitors, and products.
Everyone loves a science fairGet your submission in for the Strata Conference Science Fair by January 14.
Strata's science fair will showcase the creative edges of big data. If you have an interesting tool or technology to show -- the more beta, the better -- let us know.
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