Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 16, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- October’s Big Data News
- Automated tools, big data use in security ‘limited’
- Why becoming a data scientist is NOT actually easier than you think …
- Who are the wealthiest data scientists? – Data Science Central
- Hadapt Boosts Hadoop With Interactive Apps
- Hadoop and the Cloud
- New Big Data Study Reveals Need to Empower More Employees
- Data Scientist at Level 3 Communications Kaggle
ZDNet This month has already been an important one for Big Data, and there’s more to come. In the last two weeks, several industry announcements have emerged, which I’ll go through briefly here. And with Strata + Hadoop World coming to New York next week, … (more)
ZDNet Automated security tools and big data can only help to sieve out regular and linear attacks, and are relatively ineffective against human-led attacks by sophisticated cybercriminals. They are also unable to match human analysis on threat data … (more)
TL;DR – You can take the ML course on Coursera and you’re magically a data scientist, because three really intelligent people did it. I disagree. I’m not claiming … (more)
How much wealthy are the founders of MapReduce? Who truly hit pay dirt thanks to their data science craftmanship? Names that come to my mind are the … (more)
eWeek Hadapt, provider of a big data analytics solution, has announced version 2.0 of its Adaptive Analytical Platform. Cambridge, Mass.-based Hadapt said the new release features interactive applications on Hadoop via Hadapt Interactive Query, which the … (more)
Virtualization Review (blog) Hadoop and the Cloud. Hadoop is one crazy name for one crazy technology. Apparently the technology was named after a toy elephant, though it still sounds like it tastes pretty good! Jack Norris with MapR Technologies, which offers a Hadoop distribution … (more)
Sacramento Bee IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — A new global survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics software, finds that the vast majority of global business … (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)