Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 11, 2012

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

  • IBM adds Big Data system to PureSystems family

    • eChannelLine IBM has announced the expansion of its PureSystems family, a converged infrastructure offering that integrates and optimizes all of its data center components, with the PureData System, designed specifically to quickly manage and analyze petabytes of … (more)

  • Use ‘Big Data’ to Engage Consumers, Not Just Monitor Digital Costs

    • AdAge.com Big data is promised as the solution to all our marketing problems. But right now, it doesn’t answer the big questions marketers have, such as how much to spend, where to spend it, how everything works together, what effect our money has right now and … (more)

  • Hacking it Out on Big Data | BostInno

    • By Jacqueline Grady
    The Massachusetts tech space is abuzz: Big Data is coming! News outlets, trade associations, the state, and business are all trying to define big data, (more)

  • NASA launches competition for big data innovators

    • By Rich Scherr
    NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy have announced the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of innovation competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab. (more)

  • Use ‘Big Data’ To Beat Competitors – Business Insider

    • By Max Nisen
    Revenue Analytics works primarily with Fortune 500 companies because they have the volume of data needed to run their advanced algorithms, but here are some strategies gleaned from working with big data that small business owners can … (more)

  • How to Plot 911 Police and Fire Responses in R

    • DZone News submit to reddit. The Big Data/BI Zone is brought to you in partnership with GridGain. Here you’ll learn to work with large data sets and brush up on your statistics and data science. GridGain has some of the leading experts in the Big Data space. (more)

  • Custora (YC W11) is looking for a Data Scientist | Hacker News

    • We are looking for a Data Scientist to help build our core analytics product: someone who has experience with problem solving challenges, predictive analytics, and writing code. You want to have an impact both within a small team developers … (more)

  • Mining big data, no data scientist required

    • GCN.com Often analysts know there is valuable content hidden in the vast amounts of information collected in their systems, but they need a data scientist to extract it and help make sense of it, said Rick Brown, senior director of product marketing at Chiliad … (more)

  • Data Says R Amongst Most Popular Languages

    • Smart Data Collective Data Scientist Drew Conway tackles the problem of deciding which programming languages are the most popular in an interesting way: by comparing the number of projects tagged in GitHub with each language, and the number of questions in StackOverflow … (more)

  • NSA’s Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test

    • InformationWeek It’s the latest in a series of developments for NSA’s big-data platform over the past 13 months. The NSA submitted Accumulo to the Apache Foundation in September 2011 for development as open source. In July 2012, a number of NSA employees joined with … (more)

  • The special breed of data scientist

    • ITWorld Canada Being a statistical wizard is not enough, in itself, to guarantee success in a corporate world precoccupied with translating very big datasets into actionable intelligence. As this article points out, companies are hiring people who have the innate … (more)

  • Data Scientist/business Analysis job in Farmington Hills, MI

    • October 05, 2012. View the job posting for Data Scientist/business Analysis at Performant Systems Group in Farmington Hills, MI. Do you like playing ping pong ? (more)

  • StubHub – Marketplace Data Scientist Stubhub jobs in San – eBay Jobs

    • Marketplace Data Scientist StubHub jobs in San Francisco currently available at eBay. Additional San Francisco StubHub jobs also available at eBay. (more)