Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:45:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [99.30.227.30] (HELO [10.0.114.123]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.13) with ESMTPS id 15210145 for CNI-Announce@cni.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:45:54 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 12:42:44 -0700 X-Original-To: CNI-Announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: McKinsey Global Institute Big Data Report Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The McKinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research arm of the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm, has recently issued a report that will be of interest to some readers of CNI-Announce titled "Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity", which reviews some of the techniques used in data-intensive scholarship, as well as other data-intensive analytic methods, and explores their applications to areas like government, healthcare, consumer retail, and manufacturing. The report includes a discussion of estimated payoffs from these new approaches, as well as some consideration of policy issues. The report can be found at http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/index.asp Download information is at the bottom of the page. Note that it's available in several e-book formats as well as in the standard PDF download. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI