Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 14, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- This Week in Big Data: HortonWorks’ Major Updates, HANA and …
- java – Hadoop: Array of primitives as value in a key value pair – Stack …
- Data Scientist Named ‘Sexiest Job of the 21st Century’: Who is This …
- How to detect political propaganda Data Science Central
- Wanted: Candidates with diverse training to fill severe big data jobs
- Big data is useless unless it’s also fast, diverse
- IBM helps clients tame big data
- JP Morgan urges super funds towards big data
- Big Data News | VentureBeat
By Maria Deutscher
A few vendors announced notable big data developments this week. Hortonworks alone had two. On Thursday the big data start-up unveiled a new ODBC driver that allows users to integrate their existing BI applications with Hadoop. (more)
By jojoba
I have asked a very resemblant question in a previous thread Hadoop: How can i have an array of doubles as a value in a key-value pair? . My problem is that i want to pass a double array as value from map to reduce phase. The answer i got … (more)
Thomas Davenport, visiting professor at Harvard University and author of the watershed book Competing on Analytics, is once again making waves across the … (more)
I read the job report article posted on Yahoo Finance this Friday. Mysteriously, the unemployment rate dropped to below 8%. Like pretty much every poster … (more)
shortage InfoWorld The U.S. faces a substantial shortage of workers with data science skills, according to a much-talked about report published last year by consulting firm McKinsey and Company. The report predicted that by 2018, the country will lack 1.5 million … (more)
GigaOM The big data revolution is in its early innings, and it is about to get even more exciting. Ravi Mhatre, managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discusses the disruptive innovations that are helping make data fast, intuitive and easy to analyze. (more)
Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – IBM has expanded its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems with the introduction of PureData System, to help global organizations make sense of the massive influx of data being created daily. Now, clients can more … (more)
iT News Gray acknowledged that J.P. Morgan WSS was not involved in applying big data analytics to superannuation fund member data but looked to share the wider organisation’s expertise with its clients. J.P. Morgan had more than 260,000 employees across the … (more)
Attivio, a Boston-based “big data” startup has pulled in $34 million to help customers organize their data — whether it’s sitting pretty in a database or is strewn … (more)