Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 12, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Data Visualization Expert Hadley Wickham to Join Metamarkets as
- Tech Trailblazers Awards go large: Big Data unveiled as new category
- NH ‘Big Data’ biz plans move to Boston
- NextBio and Intel Collaborate to Optimize the Hadoop Stack and Advance
- Data Clouds Part II: My Big Data Dashboard
- Data science and analytics weekly digest – AnalyticBridge
- The Social Impact of Data Science Tickets at Practice Fusion Hq, 7 …
- ViaWest Introduces Two New Infographics: Big Data and IT Infirmity
- ‘Big Data’ Journal GigaScience Makes Its Debut
- The Echo Nest Raises Over $17 Million in New Financing to Bring Big Data
- Intel partners with Nextbio to optimise Apache Hadoop
- Do you need a data scientist or a chief data officer? | Blog | Data …
- Soda vs. Pop with Twitter – Edwin Chen’s Blog
- Soda versus pop on Twitter
- Factual Data Scientist Interview Questions | Glassdoor
Inaugural … Technology Digital (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – July 10, 2012) – Metamarkets, a leader in big data analytics for web-scale companies, announced today a first-of-its-kind Data Scientist in Residence program. This unique series from Metamarkets is designed to promote … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) In addition to other enterprise technology categories such as Cloud and Infosecurity, the Tech Trailblazers are adding Big Data as a dedicated category. This addition reflects the overwhelming interest from big data startups in participating in the … (more)
Mass High Tech NH ‘Big Data’ biz plans move to Boston. (more)
Big … EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) NextBio and Intel announce a collaboration aimed at optimizing and stabilizing the Hadoop stack and advancing the use of Big Data technologies in geno. (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) In my previous blog, I wrote at length about the complexities of running a data cloud in production. This logical data set, spread across many nodes, requires a whole new set of tools and methodologies to run and maintain. Today we’ll look at one of … (more)
Here is our weekly selection of 14 articles and forum questions: Predictive Analytics Courses from The Modeling Agency How to Solve Complex Computations in … (more)
Get details for The Social Impact of Data Science, including date, start time, driving directions and more. Find other events in San Francisco, CA. (more)
MarketWatch (press release) The new Big Data infographic shows the latest statistics on data storage including implications of how big data will affect businesses in the future. ViaWest’s IT Infirmity infographic outlines the biggest issues facing CIOs in 2012. The issues include … (more)
Bio-IT World The inaugural issue of the ‘big data’ journal GigaScience and its companion database, GigaDB, is published this week. The journal, which is published by China’s BGI, the world’s largest genome sequencing institute, and BioMed Central, the British … (more)
to … MarketWatch (press release) The Echo Nest established itself as the leading music big data company by providing open, API-based access to the largest repository of dynamic music data in the world, with over one trillion data points. Its tools enable media companies and … (more)
Inquirer Hadoop is an implementation of Google’s Mapreduce. It has become a popular open source framework for distributed applications and is used by Yahoo and Facebook among many others. Now Intel wants to get in on the party by combining two of the biggest … (more)
According to several sources there are currently over 10000 data scientist positions waiting to be filled. Others argue that we don’t need the scientists just yet, but … (more)
Data scientist at Twitter. Previously math and linguistics at MIT, quantitative trading at Clarium Capital. I like math, statistics, machine learning, and linguistics. (more)
Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language usage of soda, pop, and coke. We’ve seen this before, so it shouldn’t be … (more)
Factual Data Scientist interview question and interview review. Free interview details posted anonymously by Factual interview candidates. (more)