InformationWeek At the Kontagent Konnect user conference in late May, Williams made a presentation called the “7 Deadly Sins of Data Science,” in which he outlined the common mistakes that organizations make when processing large amounts of data. There’s a good … (more)
Profile of Hadley Wickham, Data Scientist in Residence at …
Interview with Hadley Wickham, Data Scientist in Residence at Metamarkets. Hadley discusses data science, data visualization, ggplot2 and R. (more)
Big Data’s Impact to You
Emergency Management (blog) One of my missions in life is to alert you to new trends and terminology when it comes to technology and what will impact you in the future. I know some of you might be saying, “I’m not an IT person and don’t deal with this stuff.” Wrong! You might not … (more)
Big Data: Are You Ready for Multimedia Information Systems?
Smart Data Collective Given three Vs of Big Data, namely Data Volume, Data Variety and Data Velocity, traditional data storage, retrieval and analysis tools/technology like RDBMS and SQL are no longer going to work and we are going to leap frog into a new generation of … (more)
Big data that’s worth big bucks
The Hindu Last week, an official business meet between the chiefs of social media giant Facebook and retail behemoth Walmart raised a few eyebrows. While officially it was given to understand that Walmart, a retail major which lags behind others such as Amazon … (more)
Democratize Your Big Data with Talend | Inside-BigData.com
Christopher Tozzi writes that Talend has a new partnership with Google that is all about democratizing Big Data. Now Talend users can integrate a number of Google resources within their Big Data infrastructures, such as Google Cloud … (more)
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera, Google Steal the Show …
By Maria Deutscher
This week Cloudera and Google’s new cloud platform were the biggest attractions, not just for the blogosphere but also several vendors that decided to align themselves with one or the other to promote their big data plans. Hewlett-Packard … (more)
Big Predictions About Big Data
A look at Pew Research Big Data survey – will we find new and innovative ways to analyze, visualize, and extract value from massive and growing data sets, or will we become overwhelmed by information ? (more)
Big Data’s big week
ZDNet In just one week, the Big Data world saw several major partnership announcements that in aggregate tie together an Internet search powerhouse, two Hadoop all-stars, a decades-old database company, several Business Intelligence players and the maker of … (more)
Can you predict who will love a song?
The Guardian (blog) This event, the Music Data Science Hackathon, is clear evidence of that because it involved the music giant EMI Music sharing its highly prized EMI Million Interview Dataset for the very first time. This is a vast and uniquely rich dataset compiled … (more)
Big Data and Cloud – Managing the Explosion of Data
SYS-CON Media (press release) Big data requires adequate storage and distributed processing. Big Data also injects heterogeneous data types that need proper integration into the existing infrastructure. Social networks have been generating tremendous amounts of such data. Big Data … (more)
Harness Big Data with Google BigQuery | TechRepublic
Need processing power for your big data? Google’s service called BigQuery allows you to run SQL-like queries against large datasets on a subscri. (more)
Data Science | Greenplum
Data Science and Moneyball A Profile of Pete Skomoroch Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Metamarkets Blog 7252012 Pete Skomoroch is a Principal Data … (more)
How to Avoid a Hadoop Hangover
Forbes It is quite natural for a ground breaking technology to arrive, be celebrated, enable new types of applications, and then to have expectations to grow beyond the technology’s ability to deliver. This crest of this cycle is now occurring in the world of … (more)
Big Data: What Do You Think It Is?
ReadWriteWeb “Big Data” is the technology that is supposedly reshaping the data center. Sure, the data center isn’t as fun a topic as the iPad, but without the data center supplying the cloud with apps, iPads wouldn’t nearly as much fun either. Big Data is also the … (more)
Technical Program Manager – Data Science at LinkedIn in Mountain …
LinkedIn is hiring! View and apply for the Technical Program Manager – Data Science Job at LinkedIn in Mountain View, CA. (more)
BIG DATA, BIG BUCKS: LinkedIn’s Dan Roth Talks Social News At ‘Social
Media … Business Insider startup-120wide.png Hear from brands like Gap and Pepsi on measuring social media impact at “Social Media ROI,” Business Insider’s conference on strategy for Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Google Plus and Pinterest. (more)
Leading Analyst Group Says Big Data Yields Big Results Through Sales and …
MarketWatch (press release) The featured research note, written via collaboration among 10 Gartner analysts, titled “Big Data Yields Big Results Through Sales & Pricing Effectiveness,” emphasizes that organizations that fail to leverage the insights found in big data will miss … (more)
Post Doctoral Data Scientist at the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab …
What is NTL? The Lab is a research group dedicated to improving methods of crowdsourcing and analytics for. NASA. We aim to deliver the most innovative, … (more)