Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 26, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Full stack HA in Hadoop 1: HBase’s Resilience to Namenode …
- Microsoft Simplifies Big Data for the Enterprise
- IBM Helps Organizations Tackle Industry Specific Big Data Challenges
- Data Scientist | Built In Chicago
- EMC and Kaggle Partner to Enable On-Demand Data Scientist …
- Creative thinking and data science | Datascope Analytics
- Data Science at Engine Yard | Engine Yard Blog
- Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science … – arXiv
- NYC Data Week News Wraps-Up
- Are You Ready for Big Data?
- Big data: what is it and how can it help?
- Netflix Uses Big Data to Improve Streaming Video
- Big Data, Big Payoff: Delivering Moneyball Results To Business
- Microsoft Releases Windows HDInsight ‘Previews’ for Hadoop
In this blog, I’ll cover how we tested Full Stack HA with NameNode HA in Hadooop 1 with Hadoop and HBase as components of the stack. Yes, NameNode HA … (more)
New Apache Hadoop-compatible solutions for Windows Azure and Windows Server enable customers to easily extract insights from big data. (more)
IBM Press Room – At IBM Information On Demand & Business Analytics Forum 2012, IBM today unveiled a new digital marketing system and big data software … (more)
job description. MarkITx is looking for our founding data scientist. We are a funded startup, working out of 1871. We are a very talented, deeply experienced and … (more)
EMC Greenplum Chorus Data Science Platform Unites Worlds of Social and Big Data Analytics, Opens Access to 55,000 Kaggle Data Scientists, Released As … (more)
Perhaps it is a lack of talent; are there enough technically trained individuals that are capable of solving data science problems? With a single entity (albeit IBM) … (more)
Big Data Science at Engine Yard using R, Hadoop, Python, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLTK, Statistics, mathematics. (more)
Abstract: Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to … (more)
ZDNet NYC Data Week News Wraps-Up. Summary: Starta + Hadoop World NYC is done, but cataloging the Big Data announcements isn’t. This post aims to remedy that. Andrew Brust. By Andrew Brust for Big on Data | October 26, 2012 — 16:17 GMT (09:17 PDT) … (more)
Data Center Knowledge Investors continue to put money into development of the technologies and tools that are allowing big data ambitions to be realized. It is not a feeding frenzy, but there is a steady stream of funding being targeted for big data startups. It is clear … (more)
The Guardian (blog) Unless you work with it on a daily basis, big data is relatively unknown, both as a term and a concept. Even among industry experts its definition is the subject of intense debate. To some the key characteristic is a database’s volume, to others it is … (more)
Wall Street Journal (blog) The company turned to Big Data following an outage in 2008 that left some customers without service for three days, said Kurt Brown, Netflix’s director of data science and engineering, during a presentation at the Strata Conference in New York. (more)
Forbes Moneyball, the 2011 film based on a bestselling book by Michael Lewis, reveals how the Oakland Athletics won almost two-thirds of its games in 2001, with a payroll just one-fourth of the mighty New York Yankees, and nearly beat the Yankees in the 2001 … (more)
Redmondmag.com Microsoft and its partner Hortonworks took a step forward this week in enhancing Hadoop “big data” functionality via Windows and Windows Azure. Preview test releases of the new Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows, as well as the new Windows Azure … (more)