The processes of generating innovative solutions mostly rely on skilled experts who are usually unavailable and their outcomes have uncertainty. Computer science and information technology are changing the innovation environment and accumulating Big Data from which a lot of knowledge is to be...

The widespread use of the Internet and computer systems has led to a situation where data are available on almost everything. The volume and the level of detail of these data is something we considered to be impossible until a few years ago. Researchers in economics and business now have access...

Analytics is the future of big data because only transforming data into information gives them value and can turn data in business in competitive advantage. Large data volumes, their variety and the increasing speed their growth, stretch the boundaries of traditional data warehouses and ETL...

Although support vector regression models are being used successfully in various applications, the size of the business datasets with millions of observations and thousands of variables makes training them difficult, if not impossible to solve. This paper introduces the Row and Column Selection...

As the market has changed to adopt new advertising techniques and consumers’ input, market research faces times of great challenges – and great opportunities. This paper details eight current trends in market research: rethinking working concepts as basic as the well-known purchase funnel;...

The technological advance has made possible to create data bases designed for the marketing intelligence, with the availability of large information. Data Mining is the process of selection, research and modeling of large amounts of data aimed to find out unknown business relationships in order...

There are over 3 billion searches globally on Google every day. This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near future is of interest, as the official records of the state...

Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues...

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Most economic concepts such as the market, competition, flexibility, pricing of production factors and consumption theory no longer reflect the reality of the contemporary situation. The current economic model and political system form a synthesis of fiduciary economics and privilege political...