Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 29, 2012

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

  • Data Scientist Recommendation Engine Will Relocate Job in Palo …

    • Data Scientist – Recommendation Engine – Will Relocate! job in Palo Alto, California, US. Read the Data Scientist – Recommendation Engine – Will Relocate! (more)

  • Do you think that data mining is dead? – AnalyticBridge

    • It’s been renamed as big data / data science, although data science is much more than data mining: 20% of data science is pure data mining, that is exploratory analysis to detect patterns, clusters etc. to develop automated predictive or visual … (more)

  • Data science: Mining available info for hidden value

    • TechTarget At Sears Holdings Corp. in Hoffman Estates, Ill., Chief Technology Officer Phil Shelley understands the importance of promoting data science and finding the hidden value in statistics that most businesses throw away, archive or ignore. In this video … (more)

  • Context Relevant Announces Formation of World-Class Data Science

    • Advisory … MarketWatch (press release) Members of the Context Relevant Data Science Advisory Board have run some of the largest computational clusters in the word and include world-renowned experts in support vector machines, real-time machine learning, and natural language processing. (more)

  • Context Relevant rebuffs ‘acquihire’ offers, attracts top data scientists

    • GeekWire Context Relevant has hired Dustin Hillard, a data science and machine learning expert who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, as director of engineering. In past roles at Microsoft, Hillard built systems to improve the large-scale … (more)

  • Big data must be used responsibly

    • ITWeb Speaking at the Gartner Symposium, in Cape Town, Andy Kyte, VP and Gartner fellow, said in the big data era, companies can learn things about customers that they do not even know about themselves. Business can get amazing insights through big data, … (more)

  • John Webster: Big data deserves IT’s attention

    • Computerworld Computerworld – Perhaps you’ve heard that the next new thing in IT is “big data” and concluded that the hype-cycle machine is turning out another attention-getter. I’m not big on predicting paradigm shifts, so I won’t in this case. But I will say that … (more)

  • UtiliPoint Expands Data Analytics Practice to Include Hadoop Services

    • Sacramento Bee “Expanding our analytics capabilities to include Hadoop will help our customers identify previously unrecognizable associations and trends. The result is actionable insights to more accurately predict and influence customer behavior, operate more … (more)

  • Context Relevant Announces Formation of World-Class Data Science

    • Advisory … Sacramento Bee SEATTLE, Aug. 28, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Context Relevant (www.contextrelevant.com), a leading provider of Big Data modeling and analytics software, announced today the formation of its Data Science Advisory Board. The board will provide the … (more)

  • Quest for Big Data

    • ZDNet Quest Software is a company that most people working in the Enterprise relational database world know well. Its Toad for Oracle product has been a favorite of developers and database administrators on the Oracle platform for a long time, and it is now … (more)

  • Big Data Takes Center Stage in the 2012 Presidential Election

    • Forbes In every election, campaigns, consultants and pollsters analyze boatloads of information to identify and target millions of voters and to conduct surveys that seem to proliferate like rabbits. But the use of big data takes place behind the scenes. Not … (more)

  • Follow up on big data and civil rights

    • O’Reilly Radar A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about big data and civil rights, which seems to have hit a nerve. It was posted on Solve for Interesting and here on Radar, and then folks like Boing Boing picked it up. I haven’t had this kind of response to a post … (more)

  • DOE Wants Big Data To Mix, Blend Information For Users

    • AOL Government Big data can mean a lot of things to different federal agencies. To the Department of Energy, big data not only means managing an information sharing network to promote big science, but also making the results of that research available to the public. (more)

  • Tervela Forges Partnership with Teradata for Big Data

    • Sacramento Bee 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Tervela, the leading data fabric solution provider, today announced it is working together with Teradata, the analytic data solutions company, to deliver enhanced solutions for moving and distributing big data. The partnership … (more)

  • Data Science Jobs Forum Kaggle

    • 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)

  • Pervasive Software to Present at Big Data Science Meetup

    • Equities.com … cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, announced that Jim Falgout, chief technologist of Pervasive Big Data and Analytics Products, will present at the Big Data Science Meetup held August 25 from 1:30-5:00 p.m. PDT at the SGI building in … (more)