June 5, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

• ClickFox Update Lets Consumer Stats Skip the Data Scientist …

ClickFox is a maker of consumer behavior analytics software that has become quite popular over time, and now it’s rolled out the latest version of its flagship … (more)

• HP Loses Several Top Vertica Execs As Big Data Talent Wars Heat Up

CRN In the past month, Vertica CTO Dan Holle left HP to take the CTO position at Greenplum, a division of EMC; Mingsheng Hong, who according to his LinkedIn profile was field CTO at Vertica, left to become chief data scientist at Hadapt; Renee Bochman, … (more)

• Tapping big data for early identification of preventable conditions

Government Health IT This where big data can serve as a major contributor to improving health and avoiding preventable conditions by tracking patient-level data. For individuals with chronic disease (or individuals who are just interested in maintaining their own health), … (more)

• NameNode Recovery Tools for the Hadoop Distributed File System …

Cloudera offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. (more)

• Big Data? Vast Majority Isn’t Prepared, New Survey Shows

International Business Times By David Zielenziger: Subscribe to David’s RSS feed Global enterprises are
aware of the coming of so-called “Big Data,” or the trillions of bytes of electronic data flowing through the Cloud and Internet. But they don’t have much of an idea how to deal … (more)

• HP Unleashes the Power of Big Data

MarketWatch (press release) HP has been investing in innovation to build out the industry’s most comprehensive Information Optimization Solutions portfolio with unique intellectual property and technologies that solve customers’ challenges with big data. (more)

• Human Algorithm Conference on Big Data to be held on August 8-9, 2012 in

San … WebWire (press release) The business of Big Data and Big Data Science is the Human Algorithm conference in San Francisco. Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, database experts (ex: Hadoop), data analytics and investment will be covered. New York, NY–Ticonderoga Ventures … (more)

• Revolution R v6.0 comes to town.

ZDNet (blog) It really is a data science tool. R’s popularity in both academic and commercial circles, combined with its extensibility, has resulted in a booming ecosystem of libraries that take the general purpose R langauge and make it a more specialized tool for … (more)

• Kontagent’s Seven Deadly Sins of Big Data

DABCC.com And while most of the event’s content may have focused on Kontagent’s core social/mobile/gaming app verticals, a presentation on the so-called 7 Deadly Sins of Data Science by President and Chief Science Officer Josh Williams had solid advice on common … (more)

• GTSI Technologists Appointed to TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission

MarketWatch (press release) Working in conjunction with a government advisory board, the BDC will provide guidance on how government should best leverage big data to address critical business issues and better deliver on the mission, as well as examine how big data can help drive … (more)

• Talk: Scalability Challenges in Big Data Science – Marginally …

Tuesday, June 05, 2012. Talk: Scalability Challenges in Big Data Science. Scalability Challenges in Big Data Science. Yesterday I gave a talk on scalability and … (more)

• Data Science and Prediction by Vasant Dhar :: SSRN

The world’s data is growing more than 40% annually. Coupled withexponentially growing computing horsepower, this provides us withunprecedented basis for … (more)

• Impetus to Present Strategies for Minimizing Risk While Integrating Big

Data … MarketWatch (press release) Impetus is a software R&D and engineering services company with significant investments and expertise in emerging areas like Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing, Data Science, Cloud Enablement, Mobility and Social Media. (more)

• HG Data Company Launches Technology User Database, “HG Data 400″

Sacramento Bee The company’s unique data science approach scours the open Web, combining unstructured data with archived offline sources, resulting in detailed profiling of the enterprise technology marketplace. HG Data was founded in 2010 by the team that built and … (more)

• New Data Science Packages Coming To Computational Journalism …

From the announcement: The package BatchJobs implements the basic objects and procedures to control a batch cluster within R. It is structured around cluster … (more)