--- title: "Opera Solutions' Blog: The Hottest Spot for Practical AI and Big Data Science | Harry Shilling" description: Opera Solutions is the largest independent predictive analytics company in the world, providing Practical AI and Big Data Analytics as an ongoing service to blue-chip clients across the globe. --- [![](https://blog.operasolutions.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Opera_Solutions_Logo_Standard_RGB-72.png?width=369&height=202&name=Opera_Solutions_Logo_Standard_RGB-72.png "Opera_Solutions_Logo_Standard_RGB-72.png")](https://www.operasolutions.com/) ![Blog_Header-4](https://blog.operasolutions.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Header-4.png?width=3377&name=Blog_Header-4.png "Blog_Header-4") [![Blog_Banner_v3](https://blog.operasolutions.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Banner_v3.png?width=3713&name=Blog_Banner_v3.png "Blog_Banner_v3")](https://blog.operasolutions.com) ## Harry Shilling ### Recent Posts ## [Big Data at the Intersection of Finance and Technology](https://blog.operasolutions.com/bid/308898/big-data-at-the-intersection-of-finance-and-technology) Posted by [Harry Shilling](https://blog.operasolutions.com/author/harry-shilling) on Tue, Jul 02, 2013 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.operasolutions.com/hs-fs/file-203736145-png/images/njtc_logo.png)](https://blog.operasolutions.com/bid/308898/big-data-at-the-intersection-of-finance-and-technology) *Opera Solutions recently hosted the New Jersey Technology Council’s FinTech Conference. This post is a reflection of our observations from that day.* [Read More](https://blog.operasolutions.com/bid/308898/big-data-at-the-intersection-of-finance-and-technology) Topics: [Big Data](https://blog.operasolutions.com/topic/big-data), [Mobiuss](https://blog.operasolutions.com/topic/mobiuss), [Events](https://blog.operasolutions.com/topic/events) ## [Big Data Takes the Travel Industry in New Direction](https://blog.operasolutions.com/bid/311798/big-data-takes-the-travel-industry-in-new-direction) Posted by [Harry Shilling](https://blog.operasolutions.com/author/harry-shilling) on Thu, Jun 27, 2013 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.operasolutions.com/hs-fs/file-208238747-jpg/images/luggage-carousel.jpg)](https://blog.operasolutions.com/bid/311798/big-data-takes-the-travel-industry-in-new-direction) *A new report, featured in* The New York Times*, highlights the benefits of Big Data and machine learning in the airline industry and beyond.* The travel industry has always been a vast data collector. Every airline reservation, every hotel booking, every car rental ends up in a conventional database of structured data. But today Big Data — the unstructured data that includes ratings on blog sites, likes on social media, conversations with call centers, customer clickstreams, and more — is becoming increasingly important in determining how travel companies keep customers coming back. 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