Big Data, Big Insights for Social Media with IBM

Business 2 Community Big data was the buzzword of the day today during our second day of IBM training on analytics and, for my social media marketers, today had a BIG payoff. Google Big Data and you’ll see it’s a really HOT topic, not only in social media and marketing, … (more)

Data scientists don’t scale

ZDNet “Data scientist” is a title designed to be exclusive, standoffish and protective of a lucrative guild. To be clear, people who have the skills to qualify for this moniker are very valuable, but the title itself isn’t. The blocker to broad adoption of … (more)

The Big Deal about Big Data

Windows IT Pro (blog) Big Data is important because it enables organizations to derive new decision-making information from previously untapped data sources. Like Business Intelligence (BI) Big Data is all about making better and faster business decisions and gaining a … (more)

Infochimps Shares the Secrets of Big Data Success

Sacramento Bee AUSTIN, Texas, May 22, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Big Data cloud service provider Infochimps (Infochimps.com) announced today the release of “How to Do a Big Data Project,” a step by step guide for large enterprises implementing Big Data projects. Recent … (more)

Hadoop 2.0: New Big Data Possibilities

InformationWeek Hadoop 2.0 will be announced within a matter of days, and a new YARN framework component at its core promises to “take Hadoop beyond MapReduce,” according to Arun Murthy, chairman of the Apache committee overseeing the release. Moving beyond … (more)