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Tweet Chat: Big Data in the Financial Services Industry

Written by Kirk Newell | Mar 6, 2017 5:04:00 PM

Cambridge Semantics recently hosted a Tweet Chat with industry professionals, media and analysts to discuss Big Data in the Financial Industry using the hashtag #SmartDataChat.

The chat reached 259,006 unique Twitter accounts, with our tweets and those of our participants receiving a total of 5,118,704 impressions. The chat also included a total of 32 contributors, including a number of well-known media members and analysts:

  • Carl Brooks, Analyst at 451 Research
  • Chris Preimesberger, Editor at Features and Analysis at eWeek
  • Jack Vaughan, Senior News Writer at TechTarget
  • Jim Connolly, Executive Managing Editor at InformationWeek
  • Eric Kavanagh, CEO at The Bloor Group
  • Robin Bloor, Chief Analyst at The Bloor Group
  • John Myers, Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates
  • Ken Hess, Writer/Blogger at ZD Net
  • Roger Strukhatf, Editor at Sys-Con Media
  • Virginia Backaitis, Staff Reporter at CMSWire

Read the full timeline below to get their thoughts, opinions and insights on this timely topic.

#SmartDataChat Tweets

To learn more about applying semantic technology to harmonize big data in the Financial Services industry, read our blogpost compilation "2016: The Year of the Financial Smart Data Lake".