IBM hosted a live CrowdChat on #TEDatIBM – crowdsourced conversation about Big Data. It was a 1-hour “content jam” with passionate thought leaders and social users interested in the intersection of social and data.

Top Conversations in the Crowd
The top discussion threads with the most engagement as voted by the crowd was:

“How can companies with limited resources leverage #bigdata and social business tools for competitive advantages?” – 112 Votes

What ‘forces’ are driving the need for social businesses to leverage the power of big data? Social networking? Market trends? etc – 99 Votes

The theme for #TEDatIBM is ‘Reimagining our World.’ How can companies ‘reimagine big data and social business for optimal performance? – 57 Votes

What are some use case revolving around #bigdata that you have seen that really moved the needle? What were some of the results? – 52 Votes

What advances in Big Data & Social Business can we expect to see in the next 1-3 years? – 51 Votes

There are many ways to analyze data in every industry — do some leverage analytics and #socbiz better than others? – 36 Votes

Rest of the conversation can be found here: CrowdChat.net/TEDatIBM

FULL Unedited Transcript

IBM’s social media team for @IBMSocialBiz curated the CrowdChat and the resulting curated transcript is below.

Curated Storify by IBM