Magna Notitia is Latin for Big Data

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The futuring and innovation course at Colorado Technical University (CTU), is part of the computer science doctoral program. My concentration is big data and decided to remain within my concentration to meet this course's deliverables.



Magna notitia is Latin for big data. This blog title intends to emphasize the type of content that can be found in it. This blog is part of my futuring and innovation course, where big data, data science, and business intelligence topics will be discussed. Other discussions may include analytics, technology, innovation, tools, and data visualization. This space will be utilized to reflect on the impacts of big data into everyday life, industry, and government, as well as important technological advances in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), predictive and prescriptive analytics, and statistical applications, all in efforts to become better data-driven decision-makers, capable of extracting actionable information, insights, and knowledge from big data. 

My background is in business and data analytics, and have supported Department of Defense (DoD) programs for over 20 years. The government, like many other organizations, collects massive amounts of data, or big data, on a consistent basis. As an analyst, my responsibilities have evolved over time alongside technology advancements and innovation in the field, and in response to changing mission requirements, as well as to ensure entire analytics teams are skilled at extracting actionable information to perform robust, accurate, and reliable data analysis in support of the decision-making process at any point, and at any time, during a program's execution cycle.

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