Weather data and insights is a huge business. IBM paid an estimated $2 billion for The Weather Company in 2015. In 2013, in the agriculture world, Monsanto purchased Climate Corporation for $930 million to get better weather data for crop insurance. … [Read more...]
How to think about organizing data
This week was full of travel to sunny and not-so-sunny locales. On Tuesday, I spent the day in San Diego at the SAS Analytics conference. (They are a sponsor of the show and the newsletter, but I paid my own way.) While there, I spent a lot of time … [Read more...]
Denver’s smart city dreams start with smart data management
Two years ago, Denver scored a $6 million grant from the federal government to pursue a smarter transportation infrastructure. The city matched those funds and so has roughly $12 million to spend on improving its transportation infrastructure with … [Read more...]
OK IoT fans, here’s what’s next!
As more and more companies connect their devices to the internet or even a local intranet, they are realizing that there's a lot of data coming off sensors, robots, and other devices. And that data is valuable. Specifically, some of that data is so … [Read more...]
Donate your data to make IoT a force for good
The internet of things is not about things. It's about data, and the ease of collecting and analyzing that data to glean some sort of insight. But so far, such data collection and analysis has benefited marketers, CEOs, or governments seeking to … [Read more...]