Big Data

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

• Making Hadoop Elephants Drink From Silverlake

IT Jungle In last week’s issue, I talked generally about big data and the use of tools like the Hadoop big data muncher created by Yahoo to emulate the very early unstructured data processing and related file system created by Google to power its search engine. (more)

• IBM Analytics Help Arad Group Manage Big Data for Water Meter Solutions

Stockhouse Big Data and analytics technology helps clients harness the explosion of data coming from a growing number of resources — including data collected from utility meter readings and sensors. Arad Group is working with IBM to integrate the latest … (more)

• Critics of big data have overlooked the speed factor

The Guardian (blog) Big data is among the computing neologisms du jour, and a technology conference in 2013 is rarely considered complete without a smattering of uses, typically accompanied by further volume-related qualifiers (tsunamis of big data being by far the worst … (more)

• Software AG’s Terracotta backs symposium on big data’s potential for the …

Al-Bawaba Terracotta Inc., a leading developer of in-memory technology and a wholly-owned subsidiary of enterprise software specialist Software AG, lent its full support to the Big Data Symposium held today (May 20, 2013) at the Habtoor Grand in Dubai. (more)

• Alteryx Raises $12 Million to Put Big Data Analytics in the Hands of All …

Sacramento Bee “Alteryx is enabling our customers to Humanize Big Data and answer the critical business questions that can accelerate their growth,” said Dean Stoecker, chairman and chief executive officer at Alteryx. “But to find these answers, business analysts … (more)

• Web Analytics Data Scientist | Millennium Search

If your preference lies with startups, and you can turn descriptive analytics into predictive analytics to drive strategy for a rapid growth company, this role offers … (more)

• Marketing, Big Data Tech IPOs Get Rousing Market Welcome – E-Commerce Times

E-Commerce Times Marketo and Tableau Software are having strong launches as public companies, indicating investors are excited about the growth in enterprise software markets that target niches such as Big Data and marketing automation. Tableau Software, which designs … (more)

• A sensible approach to big data

Network World Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social … (more)

• The Obama Campaign’s Chief Data Scientist on the Future of Civic Data

Chicagomag.com He’s taking a role as chief data scientist for the new Computation Institute’s Urban Center for Computation and Data (a multidisciplinary organization focusing on the use of data at the civic level), directing a data science fellowship for social good … (more)

• What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst

CloudTimes While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst on the other hand performs data analysis on a particular system only. In short, a big data analyst is some sort of an … (more)

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• Big Data Enables Companies and Researchers to Look into the …

Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can … (more)

• Big Data Collides with Market Research

Innovation Excellence (blog) Wikibon.org also cites an IDC study forecasting the big data market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion globally in 2015. The multi-billion dollar question is this: with players such as IBM, Accenture, SAP, and Microsoft … (more)

• Data Scientist Shortage? There’s An App For That | 10gen

Applications and open source make Big Data easier to use and more pervasive, according to IBM’s Big Data evangelist. (more)

• The Rise of the Data Scientist: Recap of IBM Twitter chat | The Big …

A Twitter chat featuring Adrian Bowles, James Kobielus and Hilary Mason explored the rise of the data scientist along with big data analytics. (more)

• Linfox crunches big data to keep trucks on time

iT News Logistics giant Linfox is embarking on a big data-crunching exercise that will give its control centres the ability to predict hazards and help drivers navigate around them. The company is using a SAP HANA in-memory analytics database engine to crawl … (more)

• DataEDGE: A New Vision for Data Science ~ Policy by the Numbers

The short term hype cycle is (thankfully) burning itself out, and the profound changes that data science can and will bring to human life are just now coming into … (more)

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• Data Science Is Now a Job Market Based Entirely on Merit – IEEE …

By Steven Cherry
A start-up ranks data scientists and creates competitions between them for specific consulting projects. (more)

• Glassbeam Inc. Named Lightning Round Winner for Big Data Track for

TiEcon … San Francisco Chronicle Glassbeam Inc., the leading provider of Big Data applications for machine data analytics, announced today that it has been named one of the Lightning Round winners for Big Data track of TiEcon 2013. Lightning Round winners are recognized for their … (more)

• Digital Marketing Briefs: Big Data with Lattice Engines, Live Video

Marketing … CMSWire Lattice Engines, a Big Data solutions provider has released its new Big Data analytics platform: salesPRISM. Lattice has found that a lot of other analytics and Big Data solutions only provide information from a single, specified time frame, but … (more)

• Avnet, HP team up on big data practice – SearchITChannel.com – TechTarget

TechTarget With the worldwide big data technology and services market forecast to grow at a 31.7% compound annual growth rate and revenues projected to reach $23.8 billion in 2016, according to recent IDC research, Avnet Technology Solutions and Hewlett-Packard … (more)

• Spotting Black Swans with Data Science The CIO Report WSJ

Traditional analytic models can’t keep up with today’s unprecedented volume and variety of data. The emerging field of data science, closely intertwined … (more)

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• Data Scientist Exelate New York NY | GarysGuidecom

eXelate is the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data … (more)

• SAP boosts startup fund by 2.6X to stimulate big data innovation …

By Rebecca Grant
is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applications and big data. (more)

• GeoFlow: An Eye-Popping Excel Feature to Showcase Big Data …

By John Gagnon
GeoFlow helps you automatically map clicks, conversions, revenue and more within minutes; create amazing visualizations like heatmaps and 3D column charts; and has play button functionality to show trends over time. Here’s a step-by-step … (more)

• Google+ Redesign | Big Data and Photos | SmartData Collective

By Todd Nevins
Data analytics and design are being integrated together with the Google+ redesign, but will it be enough for us to add another social network into our lives? (more)

• EMC urges colleges to create ‘Big Data’ courses

Irish Examiner Jason Ward, EMC’s Director for Ireland, Scotland and UK North, said IT analysts Gartner have predicted that, by 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support ‘Big Data’. Mr Ward said: “There is a challenge – a shortage of talent … (more)

• Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

CSO But it was data that solved the problem — Big Data analytics. Fite said BT had effective tools to investigate the crimes, but wasn’t using them to full advantage. It had multiple sensor networks that could tell when people were on tracks or on cables … (more)

• Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

ComputerworldUK … New Analytics: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation’New analytics’ provides access, tools directly to line-of-business users >>; The rich Web app developer tools guideWhat is where on the RIA spectrum >>; How to nab a data scientist … (more)

• Seven Ways Banks Can Leverage a ‘Security Data Scientist’

Banktech Security executives are stepping in line and forming their own strategies, approaches, and use cases to achieve that new competitive edge. CISO’s are conquering this frontier by reducing risk and fraud, whether it stems from cyber data loss or … (more)

• Survey: Big Data, Cloud Drive White Hot Use of In-Memory Databases

Integration Developers Cloud and big data projects are driving a white hot adoption of in-memory databases, according to a survey just released by Evans Data Corp. a leading dev researcher. The number of devs using in-memory DBs is up 40 percent since just last fall and the … (more)

• HP teams up with SAP to release Kraken in-memory big data system

V3.co.uk Designed for real-time data analysis, the Kraken systems will target the retail, finance and government sectors as big data analysis systems for platforms such as CRM and inventory management. Built with HP hardware, the system runs on 16 Intel Xeon … (more)

• GUEST COMMENT: Big Data and marketing attribution reveal the bigger picture

InternetRetailing.net Big Data is a term applied to describe data sets whose size exceeds the ability of software tools to capture, manage and process information within a reasonable time frame. The size of Big Data can range from a few dozen terabytes to multiple petabytes … (more)

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• The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century: Data Scientist – Money Morning

Australia Money Morning Australia What do you think has been named the ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’? International footballer? Supermodel? Brain surgeon? All wrong. The answer is in fact ‘big data scientist’. This does not mean a data scientist who happens to be six foot six and … (more)

• Reviews for Introduction to Data Science | CourseTalk

The course has been running for just 3 weeks, but I totally love it! In the first assignment we learn to analize a livestream of data (twitter, in this case) and to me … (more)

• Statistics vs Data Science vs BI – Revolutions – Revolution Analytics

As someone who trained as a statistician, I’ve always struggled with that title. I love the rigor and insight that Statistics brings to data analysis, … (more)

• IDG Research Survey Exposes Pent-Up Demand For Consumable Big Data To …

Sacramento Bee PALO ALTO, Calif., May 15, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Organizations can’t gather business insights from Big Data fast enough. Kapow Software, a leading Big Data solution provider, today announced findings from a survey conducted in partnership with IDG … (more)

• There’s no shortage of data science smarts

InfoWorld (blog) “Smarts” are the ability to adapt to changing conditions, as well as to adapt conditions so that they are more conducive to human life and prosperity. Continuous adaptation is essential to human sustainability in a turbulent world. This vision depends … (more)

• GM, IBM Among Companies Joining With Schools to Cultivate Data Scientists

AdAge.com Corporate influence on education is a touchy subject, but when it comes to data-science education, corporations and academics are commingling more and more. Companies including General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Hearst, Verizon, Yahoo, Independence … (more)

• Big data is a big but young market – Network World

Interop panel concludes that many businesses just starting to come to grips with what big data means for them. (more)

• HP, SAP unveil ‘Project Kraken’ single server test for big data | ZDNet

The joint collaboration project from Hewlett-Packard and SAP effectively triples the amount of memory on a single server designed for processing big data. (more)

• Big Data Takes Over The Big Apple

Business 2 Community Big Data and the Big Apple have a greater connection than just their big names. NYC is a city using data for strategic planning, and using it like never before. Big Data Takes Over The Big Apple image 272525 l srgb s gl Big data, because of its size … (more)

• Exploring the ‘Big Data Frontier’ – SearchCIO.com – TechTarget

TechTarget We hear a lot these days about the “Big Data Frontier.” The relentless proliferation of columns (like this one), articles, blogs, videos and tweets provides more input on the subject than any one of us is capable of reading, watching, tracking and … (more)

• IBM helps transform Thames Water using Big Data Analytics in preparation

for … Stockhouse IBM together with Thames Water will create innovative strategies by analyzing big data and social media with the aim of improving operations and customer interaction while preparing the water company for future transformation. As part of the alliance … (more)

• School of Data Science

Enterprise Apps Today Because data science is an emerging field with a broad range of requirements, some companies create specialized internal training programs to get the skills they want and need. A growing number of companies find themselves in the market for data … (more)

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• Master of Data Science: Analytics for the 21st Century | IIT …

IIT is proud to announce the launch of a new Master of Data Science degree program to begin Fall 2013 (pending approval from the Board of Trustees). (more)

• Big Data Must Be More Consumable : Overhype Drives Workers to Take

Matters … SiliconANGLE (blog) Big Data’s been overhyped and is destined to become a buzz kill of a buzz word, largely because the promise of Big Data has left a huge gap between potential and actual application. Setting out to understand this gap, Kapow Software recently … (more)

• Using Big Data to Predict Attacks

BankInfoSecurity.com “When incidents occur, we don’t have to track down the data to be able to analyze it,” Caldiero, a data scientist at Zions, says in an interview with Information Security Media Group [transcript below]. “We’re able to have that at our fingertips ready … (more)

• The sexiest job of the 21st century

MoneyWeek The answer is in fact ‘big data scientist’. This does not mean a data scientist who happens to be six foot six and 20 stone. It refers to the those who can make sense of the vast and constantly expanding heap of digital data. The amount of data that is … (more)

• Shakespeare Review calls for ‘National Data Strategy’

PublicTechnology.net There should be a focused programme of investment to build skill-sets in basic data science through our academic institutions. “We need to focus investment in data capability – there no value unless it’s put to good use,” explained Shakespeare. “We … (more)

• White Paper Explores Big Data Impact on Hospitality, Travel and Tourism

Sacramento Bee ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new white paper produced by SOCAP International, the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals, describes how Big Data is transforming the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism (HTT) sector … (more)

• Sponsored post: Navigating the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem

GigaOM In the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, we built in file-based encryption in HDFS, accelerated up to 20 times with Intel AES-NI. We also launched Project Rhino to offer a common framework for authentication, authorization and auditing across key … (more)

• To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

PC Advisor Federal IT workers from the CIO on down are dealing with the challenges of big data, but they’re doing so amid the various pressures of contracting budgets, exponential growth in data volumes and a mounting expectation for higher-level, technology … (more)

• Children’s research centre boosts storage for DNA big data

ZDNet The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) is powering up its data storage capabilities as it struggles to contain big data generated from next-generation DNA sequencing technology. MCRI is one of the few medical research centres in the world that … (more)

• Does ‘Failure to Replicate’ Mean Failed Science? | Op-Ed

LiveScience.com A lot of scientists wear worried frowns these days. Science seems under attack from numerous directions. Some of the attackers are wearily familiar. Peddlers of dogma have been sworn enemies of science since the Dark Ages. People whose political … (more)