Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 26, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- How big data became so big
- Data Science ATL – Unconference – Meetup
- Lead Data Scientist – Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Wash D …
- It’s All About Big Data
- When Big Data Questions Can’t Wait For Data Scientists | Big Data
- Facebook’s big data – Yahoo! News
- Oracle Extends Commitment to R for Big Data Analytics
China Daily First, a few data points: Big Data was a featured topic this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a report titled “Big Data, Big Impact.” In March, the United States government announced $200 million in research programs for Big … (more)
Our next event will be an unconference where members can propose short topics (15-20 mins) to discuss and the group will vote for 3 speakers to present. (more)
CFPB has a job posting up for a Lead Data Scientist that might be on interest to you or someone in your network. Start date will be flexible, so I would encourage … (more)
CloudTimes big data 300×225 Its All About Big Data It’s been five years since the stealthy consumer-centric travel startup Hopper started development, but now it has finally managed to take another huge step as it manages to secure $12 million during its Series B … (more)
Alteryx and other vendors are pushing tools that aim to make big data accessible to business-side teams and other non-specialists. (more)
From Yahoo! News: More than 500 TB of data, the equivalent of the content of 20000 single-layer Blu-ray discs, are processed by Facebook everyday. (more)
Oracle Extends Commitment to R for Big Data Analytics — Extended Platform Support with Faster Performance and Enterprise Database Accessibility for R … (more)