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 …
- Hadoop-MapReduce Market Grows Exponentially
- 5 Ways To Benefit From Big Data
- Dell’s ‘Big Data Retention’ Provides Simple Data Retrieval and Analysis
- Digging Out from Big Data
- Strata: Analytics overhyped? Data science, and big data meets big …
- Big Data Job of the Day: Technical Program Manager, Data Science …
- Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters
- Actian Vectorwise Enables Real-time Hadoop Analysis
- Cloudera and HP Unleash the Power of Hadoop
- Data Scientist needed at UK startup at Skimlinks Linux Stack …
- Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is
- Hackathon Aims to Clear the Air
- 5 sites that use data science to help you predict the president
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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, a leading provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop software and services , and HP today announced an agreement that will enable clients to deploy, … (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)