The biggest surprise is the lack of surprises here. The top 3 topics were Big Data, Analytics in the Cloud/Hadoop, and Social Analytics. Privacy was in the last place.
The previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
What will be the hottest analytics / data mining topics in 2012?
The top 3 topics were Big Data with 50% of the vote, Analytics in the Cloud/Hadoop, and Social Analytics. Privacy was in the last place.
Here are the poll results.
What will be the hottest analytics / data mining topics in 2012?
[366 votes total]
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| Big Data (183) |
50.0% |
| Analytics in the Cloud and Hadoop (155) |
42.3% |
| Social analytics (146) |
39.9% |
| Text analytics (125) |
34.2% |
| Location-aware analytics (86) |
23.5% |
| Sensor data (61) |
16.7% |
| Competition platforms (39) |
10.7% |
| Game analytics (38) |
10.4% |
| Privacy (36) |
9.8% |
| Other (22) |
6.0% |
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