By Cathy O’Neil, mathbabe
Crossposted on Naked Capitalism Cosma Shalizi I recently was hugely flattered by my friend Cosma Shalizi’s articulate argument against my position that data science distinguishes itself from statistics in various ways. Cosma is a well-read … (more)
EPJ Data Science | Abstract | Beating the news using Social Media …
We present a contribution to the debate on the predictability of social events using big data analytics. (more)
Olympics Tap Big Data To Enhance Security
InformationWeek Cybersecurity is still a second priority, but its tools and techniques are helping to shore up physical security at the Games, using big data analysis techniques to identify suspicious activity, imminent threats, and unexpected holes attackers in the … (more)
Exploring Big Data and Procurement Leveraging McKinsey’s Foundational …
Spend Matters Putting on a procurement hat, it’s clear that Big Data will create greater transparency — which will in turn lead to greater opportunity. In a recent research brief on Spend Matters PRO, The Meaning of Big Data for Procurement and Supply Chain: A … (more)
Can Big Data Help Universities Tackle Security, BYOD?
CIO Can Big Data Help Universities Tackle Security, BYOD? Universities have some of the most complex IT infrastructures around, and BYOD is a reality they can’t escape. Chief Security Officers at universities are increasingly turning to Big Data analytics … (more)
Big Data And Small Data Both Impact The Bottom Line
InformationWeek Wikibon is a professional community solving technology and business problems through an open source sharing of free advisory knowledge. Big data is all the rage and gets a lot of pixel time in blogs and on news sites. As you may know, big data is a … (more)
CompTIA Breakaway 2012: Big Data, M2M & Rumors in the Halls
The VAR Guy Beyond cloud computing, CompTIA is now focused on Big Data and Machine to Machine opportunities for partners, said CEO Todd Thibodeaux. Also, he called on the U.S. government to reboot the IT health care effort, and to open up more wireless spectrum … (more)
Are Big Data Solutions the Key to Solving Health Care’s Data Problems?
IT Business Edge (blog) Oracle recently released a report noting, among other things, that health care isn’t prepared to manage Big Data. That’s hardly shocking, since health care seems largely inept at managing any data, much less Big Data, which is generally defined as … (more)
Data Scientist at ngmoco in San Francisco Bay Area – Job | LinkedIn
ngmoco is hiring! View and apply for the Data Scientist Job at ngmoco in San Francisco Bay Area. (more)
Data Scientist Infographic & Managed Analytics | Javalobby
The exploding demand for analytics professionals has exceeded all expectations , and is driven by the Big Data tidal wave. Big… (more)
Kognitio, Xtremeinsights partner to drive Big Data, Hadoop integration
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Kognitio, driving the convergence of Big Data and Cloud Computing, today announced a strategic relationship with Xtremeinsights, a solution provider focused on solving the challenges of Big Data by leveraging Hadoop with existing data management … (more)
Businesses Fill Hadoop Skills Needs With Partners CIO.com
Enterprises are adopting Hadoop faster than they can hire IT talent to build and maintain these distributed computing deployments. To fill the gap, many are … (more)
MySQL and Hadoop (Oracle’s MySQL Blog)
“Improving MySQL performance using Hadoop” was the talk which I and Manish Kumar gave at Java One & Oracle Develop 2012, India. Based on the response … (more)
Contexti Expands Enterprise Apache Hadoop Integration Services in
Australia … MarketWatch (press release) The Hortonworks Data Platform includes Apache Hadoop components, management and monitoring dashboards, data integration services and metadata services. The Hortonworks Systems Integrator Partner Program was created to train, certify and enable a … (more)
Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
Computerworld Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will not be deploying big data analytics applications even beyond 2013, the survey of 255 IT professionals found. Half of those surveyed were data storage professionals at the analyst level; the other … (more)
Big Data Gone Bad: Using Social Media Information to Determine Credit Scores
CMSWire Big data has big implications and the deluge of social media information that you’ve been voluntarily feeding online to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, among others, is also feeding big data initiatives for credit and lending agencies to evaluate … (more)
Need for Data Scientists Defeats the Big Data Purpose
IT Business Edge (blog) According to Alteryx President George Mathew, if only a handful of people can really take advantage of Big Data, it more or less defeats the purpose of making the investment in the first place. Version 7.1 of Alteryx provides 17 new pre-packaged R … (more)
Columbia University | Data Science | Applied Sciences NYC
By Guelda Voien/TRD
Columbia University will build a new center for data sciences and engineering with $15 million in help from the city. (more)
Expected vs Unexpected Events in Social Media
By Scott Hendrickson, Data Science
The Social Cocktail, Part 2 Expected vs. Unexpected Events. July 30th, 2012. Posted by Scott Hendrickson, Data Science. No Comments. In the last post on social cocktails, we looked at some high-level attributes of the social media publishers … (more)