April 30, 2012. View the job posting for Senior Data Scientist at Johns Hopkins University/applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD. Introduction: The Johns Hopkins. (more)
A Primer on Big Data in State and Local Government
Government Technology Editor’s Note: Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Public Sector, leading and setting strategic direction of solution spaces like Big Data and cloud computing. Data is a critical asset for state and local government, and it has been for decades. (more)
Calpont Launches InfiniDB 3 to Help Companies with Big Data Analytics
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Calpont Columnar Data Platform Supports Amazon EC2 and Parallel Data Load to Accelerate Big Data Analytics Deployments Frisco, TX (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Calpont Corporation announced today the general availability of the latest high performance … (more)
SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market
PCWorld In addition, SAS has recently embraced hot technologies such as in-memory processing and the Hadoop open-source programming framework for crunching large data sets. SAS is facing some competition in the statistical analysis field from R, an open-source … (more)
Big Data Is An Issue Of Corporate Survival
Forbes Companies are being destroyed and created around big data, says Luke Lonergan, co-founder and chief technology officer at Greenplum, a big data analytics company that was acquired by EMC. Admitting that big data is a squishy term, and that is partly by … (more)
Marginally Interesting: Introducing Data Science Seminars
Introducing Data Science Seminars. File under: Seminar Room. I’m very excited to announce our first Data Science Seminar. It will be a one-day seminar taking … (more)
cVidya Adds ‘Big Data’ Capabilities to BI and Analytics
Billing World Using these new capabilities, cVidya says it brings the power of Big Data (petabytes) to its pricing-analytics application for Next-Best-Offer recommendation. OfferAdvisor, which is already deployed at leading operators, enables marketing managers and … (more)
SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market
CIO This independent business analytics vendor, with steady leadership and a broad product line, has embraced hot technologies like Hadoop. By Chris Kanaracus What They Do: SAS Institute is the industry’s largest remaining independent vendor of business … (more)
Integrated marketing communications: Big Idea versus Big data at SES New
York Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conferences & Expos Dana asks Mark about the debate between big ideas and big data. In the digital industry, marketers are more concerned with the data, and data should be driving the insights. But Mark believes that the big idea still matters most and trumps the emphasis … (more)
HPCC Systems From LexisNexis Expands Strategic Alliance Program Into Asia
to … MarketWatch (press release) The HPCC Systems Alliance Program is an ecosystem of proven alliance partners to help customers adopt best practices for processing Big Data and better manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Big Data analytics solutions. (more)
Open Data Center Alliancesm Creates Data Services Workgroup to Accelerate
Big … MarketWatch (press release) The Data Services Workgroup will focus initially on big data by documenting usage model requirements towards increasing enterprises’ ability to securely collect, manage and analyze this data. Accelerating enterprise IT’s ability to use cutting edge … (more)
Logicworks and GigaOM Release Results of Big Data Survey
MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, NY, Apr 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Logicworks and GigaOm today released the results of their recently-completed survey, “Deploying Big Data 2012: Strategies for IT Departments.” The survey, which was commissioned by Logicworks and … (more)
Big Data Brought to You by Cloudera and IBM
Midsize Insider Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) as well as its Manager is meshing with IBM’s Big Data platform to deliver unprecedented business intelligence solutions. This is outstanding news for midsize businesses that have wanted a way to get … (more)
Small Business Lacks Expertise to Use Big Data
CNBC.com “Big data is expected to be truly transformative for future small and medium-sized businesses by offering insights into business operations, understanding competitive landscapes and driving informed decision making,” a survey by Techaisle, … (more)
Data Scientist- ML at Amazon in Bengaluru Area, India – Job | LinkedIn
Amazon is hiring! View and apply for the Data Scientist- ML Job at Amazon in Bengaluru Area, India. (more)
When to hire a data scientist: before or after a big crisis? – Data …
Should you be proactive, hire an expert before a crisis, or just hire someone when you have a major problem, such as Huge, unexpected churn requiring root … (more)
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera and VMware Enter the Frey …
By Maria Deutscher
This past week in big data has been a pretty exciting one, with some product launches and a milestone acquisition by VMware. First up is Cloudera, which is not exactly new to the big data business. It did, however, jump on the announcement … (more)
Technology Focus: ‘Big Data’ Goes Consumer, Too
International Business Times By David Zielenziger: Subscribe to David’s RSS feed It’s not just
enterprises and government agencies that are already starting to benefit from the new era of so-called “Big Data.” Consumers are already beneficiaries, even if they don’t know it. (more)
Big Data Lessons at MIT
David Kiron, executive editor of MIT SMR’s Innovation Hubs, attended. (more)