Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 14, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Video: The Role of Data Scientist | Inside-BigData.com
- ‘Big data’ could help solve Canada’s productivity problem
- Geospatial big data startup SpaceCurve nets another $3.5M
- Hadoop for Big Data in Cloud is Inevitable, Says MapR …
- Symantec Big Data Solution Makes Apache Hadoop Enterprise Ready
- Centrifuge Delivers Scalable Big Data Analytics with Visual Network
- Versant, NoSQL, and the Smart Grid Big Data Challenge
- Exploring Big Data and Procurement Leveraging McKinsey’s Foundational …
- Jaspersoft Big Data Survey Highlights Global Adoption Trends and Use Cases
- Data centers are up to big data’s power challenge
- Top 5 Cities for Big Data Jobs
- Real-Time Big Data Startup ParStream Raises $5.6m
- Cleversafe Inc. enhances plans for big data storage, 10 exabyte cloud
- To get value from ‘big data,’ two leading roles must share the stage
- Data Scientist: Hot Big Data Job | Big Data
- DATA DELIVERY PLATFORM DATA SCIENTIST Jobs in Foster City …
- How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry
- A Quick Overview of Hadoop
- ParStream Raises $5.6 Million For Big Data Analysis
- Desirable Data Science Skillset + Where To Start? – Kaggle
- Some Resources – Statistics, Data Science, and Modeling | Business …
- Data Science in the NFL | Data Science 101
- Data Science & Business Analytics (Denver, CO) – Meetup
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National Post Big data and analytics represent the new productivity battleground. Canada has lagged behind the major economies of the world for too long, and it’s time to shift our focus away from traditional approaches to productivity gains, embrace data as the … (more)
GigaOM SpaceCurve has raised another $3.5 million for its technology that should allow users to analyze mountains of geospatial data. Although the company has yet to deliver product code, it already has Fortune 50 customers waiting in the wings to test it on … (more)
By Tavis J. Hampton
Apache Hadoop logo The use of Hadoop to manage big data in the cloud has gained momentum in recent times, but according to MapR, the choice to use it not just a possibility; it is an inevitability. MapR’s vice president of marketing, Jack … (more)
Broadcast Newsroom (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced an add-on solution for Symantec’s Cluster File System that enables customers to run Big Data analytics on their existing infrastructure by making it highly available and manageable. Apache Hadoop offers customers … (more)
Analytics … Virtual-Strategy Magazine Centrifuge, leading provider of Big Data analytics and visualization solutions for fraud, security and risk, announced the availability of the latest release of its disruptive Big Data analytics platform, Visual Network Analytics Version 2.7. The … (more)
Greentech Media (blog) One of the biggest, baddest smart grid data sets out there describes how more than 50 million people lost power in the northeastern U.S. and Canada on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003. That hot afternoon, a series of overheated power lines sagged into overgrown … (more)
Spend Matters In their summary analysis looking at the impact of Big Data on the economy and business, McKinsey’s last observation is how the capability and approach will help with “Innovating new business models, products, and services.” The authors suggest in this … (more)
Virtual-Strategy Magazine SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Jaspersoft, the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) platform, today shared results from a survey of more than 600 Jaspersoft community members on enterprise use of Big Data in corporate … (more)
ITworld.com Certainly big data will continue to put pressure on IT operations in many areas, including power consumption. However, IT vendors will continue to squeeze more efficiencies out of hardware, assuring that big data will have data centers to process … (more)
DABCC.com Corporate data stores are growing exponentially, nearly every tech vendor is positioning their products to help handle the influx of data, and IT departments are scrambling to find the right people to collect, analyze and interpret data in a way that’s … (more)
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Real-time Big Data analytics database provider ParStream today announced that it has closed a $5.6 million round of series A financing led by Khosla Ventures. In addition to Khosla Ventures, investors include Baker Capital, Crunch Fund, Data Collective … (more)
TechTarget Cleversafe Inc. today announced its 3000 series appliances, the next generation of its object storage systems the vendor claims can be used to build a 10 exabyte storage cloud with throughput of 1 TB per second. The new devices consist of the Slicestor … (more)
TechTarget Mercutio arrives on stage in William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet with tornadic energy. During his first scene, he goes head-to-head with Romeo’s melancholy, using witty remarks, puns and a famous speech about Queen Mab to achieve the … (more)
These specialists, who can supervise the integration of many types of data, find themselves in great demand compared to traditional data analysts. (more)
DATA DELIVERY PLATFORM DATA SCIENTIST – Find Other Jobs at Acxiom Corporation in Foster City, California. (more)
Business Insider There’s a new wave of startups trying to make it easier to use big data systems. If they succeed, they will really hurt the multibillion-dollar market for business-intelligence software and threaten products like SAP’s Business Objects, IBM Cognos and … (more)
OStatic (blog) Hadoop is a big system with s a lot of moving parts, and an in-depth understanding of the entire system would obviously take more space than we have here. Instead, I’d like to discuss a high-level overview of the project, it’s parts, and why someone … (more)
TechCrunch Par Stream has raised $5.6 million for further extending its big data analysis technology that uses in-memory and massive parallel processing to do real-time analysis. The Series A financing was led by Khosla Ventures with Baker Capital, Crunch Fund … (more)
Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions. Companies, organizations and researchers post their data and have it scrutinized by the world’s best … (more)
Resources for this blog so far, and incentives to research Big Data and forecasting. (more)
Data Science in the NFLThis is an excellent blog post about a unique use of data science. Data science can help football team select better teammates Continue … (more)
For folks who desire to have fun playing with data and develop both strong technical ability and skills to apply data science and analytic results to critical … (more)