Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 12, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- SAS Adds Hadoop to High-Performance Analytics Server
- SAS extends analytics support for unstructured data
- What big data can learn from total football: The 451 Group
- The Sexiest Man in Insurance? Why Big Data Chiefs are Hot
- Big Data, Meet the Huge Data That Will Shape Your Future
- Dutch Data Science Meetup – Kaggle
- Big Data Not Required: The Benefits Of A Less Complex Model Of Climate
- IBM’s PureData Tackles New Big Data Challenges
- HP Hoping Software, Big Data Can Lead Way To Recovery
- Startup Chief: Big Data May Yield Cancer Breakthroughs
eWeek In addition, the predictive modeling capabilities of SAS High-Performance Analytics Server will now also use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), the popular open-source big data infrastructure, SAS officials said. In-memory software accelerates … (more)
Computerworld All Hadoop data loaded into the SAS server using the Access Interface will appear native to the server so there is no need to use SQL or any other database specific language to query the data, Davis said. The result is that companies will be able to … (more)
Techworld.com Total data involves processing any data that might be applicable to the query at hand, whether that data is structured or unstructured, and whether it resides in the data warehouse, a distributed Hadoop file system, archived systems, or any operational … (more)
Insurance & Technology The Harvard Business Review calls “data scientist” the sexiest job of the 21st century, and when it comes to data, what applies to industry generally applies to insurance specifically at least as much. Tags: Big Data, analytics, Murli Buluswar, Chartis … (more)
Information Management … aircraft and its mechanical systems. There’s an educational component to all of this as well. Tell me about the drive to pass on unique learning experiences for those people involved with Blue Waters in data science efforts with mining, analytics … (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)
Change Forbes When we think about climate change, we think big. Big problem, big impasse, big data. What could be more complex than the climate of the entire world and how it changes chaotically? And, as usual, when faced with too many dimensions of information to … (more)
Sci-Tech Today “That isn’t a bad thing, unless you happen to be one of the myriad companies traveling in IBM’s wake,” King said. “But over time, we expect PureData and future IBM solutions to inspire what amounts to a template for what enterprises will come to expect … (more)
CRN Yet HP’s outlook for its big data assets is decidedly murkier, casting doubt on its ability to ride one of the industry’s hottest technology trends. On one hand, HP sees plenty of potential for Autonomy and Vertica, which form the basis of its nascent … (more)
CNBC.com Startup Chief: Big Data May Yield Cancer Breakthroughs. Published: Friday, 12 Oct 2012 | 9:47 AM ET. Text Size. By: Ruth Coxeter, Health Sciences Producer. Cancer diagnostics startup Foundation Medicine is one of a growing number of health care-related … (more)