Monat: August 2017

Posted in AI use case, Data Products, Social media listening

Data-as-a-Service lessons from the company that was right about Trump

One South African company correctly predicted both the outcome of the Brexit vote and Trump’s victory. BrandsEye delivered a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) product, amalgamating social media analysis, geolocation data and other inputs to create impactful insight that most pollsters missed.

Posted in Data as an asset, Data Leadership, Data product management, Data Products, Data strategy, Strategy

What is Data-as-a-Service?

Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) can be described as productized data-driven insight on demand. DaaS allows business users to access the data and insights they need at the timing they desire. The data and insights can be consumed by multiple individuals simultaneously, location-independent of where the data has been sourced and managed.

Posted in Data Leadership, DataOps, Social media listening

Topography of a social media listening project

Social media monitoring has received a huge amount of attention in the past year following the explosive popularity of social media platforms coupled with the high-profile predictions in the US presidential elections. I have worked with numerous clients who wanted to build social media listening capabilities. This is an overview of what a social media listening project entails.