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Big Data

In the emerging field of Big Data, researchers use powerful new software to find unexpected facts hidden in mountains of seemingly unrelated information. While some of the findings seem trivial -- for example, people who preorder vegetarian meals are less likely to miss their flights¹ -- they can help companies operate more efficiently, serve customers better, and gain a competitive edge.

Thanks to smartphones, GPS, credit cards, social networks, and electronic sensors in everything from your car to your refrigerator, last year the world created enough new data to fill a stack of DVDs stretching to the moon and back.²

Behind it all, hardware, software, networking, semi-conductor, and technology service providers are jockeying for bigger slices of a 4 trillion dollar pie.³

This combination of more digital information and more powerful tools is changing data analysis from an exercise in hindsight to a predictive, real-time science. It could lead to enormous investing opportunities well beyond the technology sector.

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Kyle L. Weaver, CFA

Kyle Weaver is a research analyst for Fidelity Asset Management. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. Mr. Weaver is responsible for covering stocks within the information technology services & software industries.

Mr. Weaver acquired his current position in the Equity Research department in May 2008. Mr. Weaver assumed portfolio management responsibilities for funds focused on the IT services industry and the wireless industry in February 2009 and July 2009, respectively.

Prior to joining Fidelity in 2008, Mr. Weaver was a research analyst and portfolio manager for RiverSource Investments, LLC (previously American Express) beginning in 2002. In his roles, he was responsible for the oversight of the IT services, consumer retail and telecommunications sleeves and for conducting fundamental stock research within his covered sectors. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Weaver was an analyst for Bain Capital, LLC, where he conducted due diligence for several private equity transactions. Mr. Weaver began his career as an associate analyst with Bain & Company in 1999.

Mr. Weaver received his bachelor of arts degree in public policy, with honors and distinction, from Stanford University in 1999.

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In-Depth Coverage

The Atlantic
"The Big Data Boom Is the Innovation Story of Our Time"

Forbes
"Big Data Grows Up: Three Spaces to Watch Once the Hype Subsides"

Harvard Business Review
"Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?"

Mashable
"How Big Data Can Make Us Happier and Healthier"

McKinsey Global Institute
"Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity"

MSN Business on Main
"How Small Businesses Are Innovating With 'Big Data'"

New York Times Bits Blog
"Bizarre Insights From Big Data"

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Future of Big Data"

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/04/big-data-explosion/1729535/

World Economic Forum
"Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development"

ZD Net
"Big Data: All You Need to Know"

Videos

McKinsey Quarterly
Competing through data: Three experts offer their game plans

Books

Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
by O'Reilly Radar Team

Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics
by Bill Franks

INTO THE RIVER: How Big Data, the Long Tail and Situated Cognition are Changing the World of Market Insights Forever
by Tony Cosentino

Organizations

Storage Networking Industry Association: Analytics and Big Data Committee

Big Data Insight Group

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Permalink Submitted by Christopher Deshawn Carrizales on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 10:34

I am very interested in learning more.

Permalink Submitted by PeKay Es on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 15:30

Presently, our government seems the Big 'miner'; citing your example of Smart Meters, we may usefully learn more about our electric consumption. Yet, unless we are careful, that knowledge will be used to monitor and even control the users. Yes, we can be shut down if we use too much.

Permalink Submitted by Obsaa Abdalhalim on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 05:30

This is really great example of the importance of data and internet in this new global economy. I definitely enjoyed this video. Good Job to who ever made this and Fidelity for thinking forward.

Permalink Submitted by Sue Cutler on Sat, 01/05/2013 - 09:10

I hope whomever created this advertisement reads this comment and responds, because the idea represented in this comment leaves me very worried about how fidelity makes investment decisions for their index accounts. When one searches through "big data" to find a correlation such as "Vegetarians are less likely to miss their [airplane] flights," it does not prove an actual, real-life association. For example, 1) it make be random chance, and one would need to do more to prove it is not. 2) It may be that it is not being a vegetarian that makes a difference. Instead, it could be the act of pressing a button to choose something you want on your flight that might be what mattered. That could result for any number of reasons, including that people might only choose something like their preferred meal when they are pretty certain they are going to actually travel, or it could be that the action of choosing something special for yourself may make you more likely to psychologically invest in that future action of going on the flight. I understand that Fidelity investors are smart people, but what the heck with this ad? Do they assume we are stupid or gullible? Or did they really believe a superficial correlation can be assigned a meaning without digging further? I would appreciate an answer for all of your investors to see. (PhD in Psychology and MS in Statistics)

Permalink Submitted by Henry Chigbo on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 05:40

i love veg http://unn.edu.ng/department/crop-science

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