Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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

  • Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is …
  • 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)

  • Hadoop-MapReduce Market Grows Exponentially
  • MarketWatch (press release) The Hadoop-MapReduce market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 58% reaching $2.2 billion in 2018. Hadoop-MapReduce becomes de-facto industry standard for the Gig Data management and business intelligence (BI). (more)

  • 5 Ways To Benefit From Big Data
  • InformationWeek And how can businesses monetize big data? “This vast amount of data often leaves marketing organizations paralyzed over how to appropriately analyze the information and attain action-oriented customer insights,” writes Gartner marketing analyst Kim … (more)

  • Dell’s ‘Big Data Retention’ Provides Simple Data Retrieval and Analysis
  • ChannelPro-SMB Dell is introducing a new Big Data Retention solution that leverages RainStor software in order to significantly reduce the costs of retaining big data while helping SMBs improve management for easy retrieval and analysis. Dell’s ‘Big Data Retention … (more)

  • Digging Out from Big Data
  • CFO.com Magazine Carter Malone, vice president of compliance at investment bank Crews & Associates, never leaves his desk, not even for lunch. Malone’s job is to review the content and ensure the proper storage of all electronic communications that come in and out of … (more)

  • Strata: Analytics overhyped? Data science, and big data meets big …
  • In the true RedMonk spirit, you heard it here last. I attended O’Reilly’s Strata conference earlier this spring and have finally gotten around to summing it up. (more)

  • Big Data Job of the Day: Technical Program Manager, Data Science …
  • by Angela Guess LinkedIn is searching for a Technical Program Manager of Data Science in Mountain View, CA. According to the post, “The role of Tec… (more)

  • Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters
  • Register Open … and Shut While Hadoop is all the rage in the technology media today, it has barely scratched the surface of enterprise adoption. In fact, if anything, we are still only on the first few steps of the Big Data marathon, a race that Hadoop seems … (more)

  • Actian Vectorwise Enables Real-time Hadoop Analysis
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2012 – Actian Corporation today announced the upcoming release of its bi-directional Hadoop Data Connector at the TDWI World Conference in San Diego, which will enable businesses and enterprises to dramatically drive down the … (more)

  • Cloudera and HP Unleash the Power of Hadoop
  • Cloudera, a leading provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop software and services , and HP today announced an agreement that will enable clients to deploy, … (more)

  • Data Scientist needed at UK startup at Skimlinks Linux Stack …
  • Skimlinks is looking for a data scientist to help us back up important business decisions with data. This role will involve the following: Design, … (more)

  • Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is
  • too … Business Insider One thing that will be helpful in this direction is Rachel Schutt’s Data Science class at Columbia next semester, which is going to be a much-needed bullshit free zone. Note there’s been a time change that hasn’t been reflected on the announcement yet, … (more)

  • Hackathon Aims to Clear the Air
  • Government Technology The Data Science Hackathon was created and hosted by DSL and Data Science Global in collaboration with Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions. The activities were part of Big Data Week, a series of community led events … (more)

  • 5 sites that use data science to help you predict the president
  • GigaOM Big data and data science have already proven their worth in the worlds of online advertising and marketing, and now they’re being turned to elections. Here are five sites to follow if you want to impress your peers with data-driven insights on who’ll … (more)