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July 16, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 16, 2012

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Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 16, 2012

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

  • Principal Data Scientist

    • Four (4) years of fulltime, or equivalent part-time, experience in data warehouse project management, including the design, development, QA and management … (more)

  • Can Data Science Revitalize the Music Industry? | Datastream

    • Can the future of the music business be found through data science? That’s the idea behind the Music Data Science Hackathon on Saturday, July 21st in … (more)

  • Data Science and Moneyball: A Profile of Pete Skomoroch, Principal …

    • Interview with Pete Skomoroch, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Pete Skomoroch discusses data science and becoming a data scientist. (more)

  • Data Science and Big Data Course from EMC Data Science Central

    • Big Data Analytics requires involvement of Data Scientists We live in a data-driven world. Increasingly, the efficient operation of organizations across … (more)

  • The exabyte revolution

    • Wired.co.uk The 2012 Strata Data Science Conference, held in February in Santa Clara, California, is the kind of place where conversations start with, “What’s your index time?” Cocktail hour features custom-made drinks called Hadoopery Hooch, Alcohol-Stat and … (more)

  • This Week in Big Data: VCs, Cloud All Over the Place | SiliconANGLE

    • By Maria Deutscher
    Big data This past week featured a big push into the cloud by Kognitio, new from Fujitsu and Datameer and a couple of funding rounds. We can start with those. Clustrix offers database appliances that run the company’s distributed database … (more)

  • Infographic: Storage in the Era of Big Data | Inside-BigData.com

    • Big Data is a new frontier in IT where data sets are becoming so enormous that they are almost impossible to manage using traditional database management tools. Data types and content are getting more complicated, volume is going up and … (more)

  • Making a Career in Big Data | eMetrics Marketing Optimization …

    • By Online Behavior
    Joe Megibow, Bob Page, and John Elder are interviewed to discover how one starts a career in data analytics. Joe Megibow says that the main goal is to prove your worth by finding data that can change a business. Bob Page says that love of … (more)

  • Alteryx Humanizes Big Data to Drive Big Value with Strategic Analytics

    • MarketWatch (press release) “Alteryx Strategic Analytics brings business value to the Big Data discussion,” said George Mathew, president and chief operating officer, Alteryx. “Alteryx is Humanizing Big Data by allowing customers to integrate any type of data, including unique … (more)

  • ‘Big Data’ Is the New ‘Cloud’

    • Channel Partners A Channel Partners article by Nucleus Research’s Hyoun Park about the definition of Big Data as a moving target. (more)

  • Hortonworks Co-Founders to Present at OSCON 2012

    • MarketWatch (press release) In Murthy’s presentation, “Apache Hadoop — The Future is Now,” he will discuss the upcoming release of Apache Hadoop 0.23, which marks the first major industry release of Apache Hadoop since 2009. The session will highlight key framework … (more)

  • Video May Be Big Data’s Secret Weapon

    • CloudTweaks News Video May Be Big Data’s Secret Weapon Big data is all the rage. When someone utters those two words, images of pages upon pages of statistics come to mind. (more)

  • What’s with the whole fad thing in technology marketing?

    • Computerworld (blog) An example of this is “big data.” Big data is nothing more than a new name for database warehousing and analytics, technology which has been around for decades. Another example is cloud. Cloud is just a new name for utility computing and outsourcing of … (more)

  • The big data opportunity

    • eGov monitor The role sometimes described as the “data scientist” spans a range of disciplines, from computer science and quantitative methods, to the ability to tell stories and visualise complex relationships. And this is only partly about cutting-edge data … (more)

  • TIBCO Software to Present at Fortune Brainstorm TECH

    • MarketWatch (press release) He will be joined by Vice President, Local, Maps, and Location Services Marissa Mayer, Google; Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil, Greylock Partners; Fellow, Center for Digital Business Michael Schrage, MIT Sloan School; and moderated by Assistant Managing … (more)

  • Hadoop Harnesses Big-Data

    • Internet Evolution Hadoop has turned into a preferred way for vendors and businesses to gather unstructured data for analysis. (more)

  • Stanford rides Big Data wave in medical research

    • FierceBiotech IT Stanford University houses some of the top minds studying Big Data in biomedicine, and this summer’s issue of Stanford Medicine spotlights their cutting-edge use of monstrous amounts of biological data to advance new treatments. It’s worth taking a … (more)

  • Call to Action: How to Make the Most of ‘big Data

    • Hotel News Resource Article – Call to Action: How to Make the Most of ‘big Data – IN-DEPTH: Travel companies can use data analytics to create competitive advantage but it is not just what you know that wins in this business, dynamic it is about how fast you make sense of … (more)

  • Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies

    • ZDNet (blog) Summary: Getting over the gee-whiz factor of Big Data can be tough. Enumerating important Big Data sources and technologies can give us a good start in moving the discussion forward. (more)

  • 6 Insights From Facebook’s Former Head Of Big Data

    • Forbes Ashish Thusoo knows a lot about Big Data. Thusoo joined Facebook in 2007 when the company had 50 million users. He left when it had some 800 million. During that time he managed Facebook’s internal data analytics team. Facebook’s analytics team … (more)

  • St. Louis Big Data conference draws Facebook, Nokia, Monsanto

    • Upstart (blog) A new technology conference in St. Louis is drawing representatives from some globally… (more)

  • Big data software combs database for cancer research

    • FierceHealthIT New tools developed by the National Cancer Institute will allow any researcher to compare data from large collections of genomic information against thousands of drugs to find the most effective treatments for cancer. (more)

  • Open-access Geoscience Data Journal launched by Wiley

    • Phys.Org (press release) “NERC has been an active supporter of the data science activities that have led to the establishment of this journal, and we will be encouraging and supporting our research community to use it to publish data sets that they hold.” Provided by Wiley … (more)

  • Wrangling Big Data

    • Business 2 Community Ready or not, big data is here. In enterprise organizations, the ability to manage massive quantities of data has become a fundamental skill and a driver of. (more)

  • The Potential of Big Data

    • Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine (blog) It’s been a few months since the Obama administration launched the Big Data Research and Development Initiative, aimed at pooling large collections of data to gain knowledge and insight into everything from national security to the environment to … (more)

  • Overcoming Hadoop Data Indigestion

    • DABCC.com As enterprise IT organizations become more familiar with Hadoop, many of them are becoming all too familiar with the trials and tribulations of loading large amounts of data into the open source data management framework. (more)

  • Big Data: Unlocking the Potential of Information

    • Compliance Week While still at the earliest stages, what is becoming known as big data has the potential to spark a compliance revolution. The possibilities are tantalizing in everything from geospatial imaging to fraud detection and risk management. Details inside. (more)

  • Data Scientist Seminar Series Kicks Off! #dsss1 (with images, tweets …

    • Mingsheng Hong takes the stage at the first in the Data Seminar Series. Tweeted live by Tammy Kahn Fennell of MarketMeSuite. See below for the highlights! (more)

  • Redmond Data Scientist, SharePoint, 801802 Job – WA, 98052

    • Job Category: Software Engineering: Product Planning Location: Redmond, WA, US Job ID: 801802-85739. Division: Microsoft Office Division Office 365 is one … (more)

  • Data Scientist Big Data Python C++ Machine Learning Job in Seattle …

    • Data Scientist – Big Data, Python, C++, Machine Learning job in Seattle, Washington, US. Read the Data Scientist – Big Data, Python, C++, Machine Learning … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 16, 2012

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Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 16, 2012

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