Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 29, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Gartner Says Big Data Getting Bigger, Skills Lag
- Greenplum & Kaggle partnership and OpenChorus Data Science Central
- How Ebay uses big data to make you buy more
- Introducing a big data prediction engine for the power grid
- Big data brag amplification and social media
- Little Data, Big Data and Very Big Data (VBD) or Big BS?
- Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs
- Big Data Offers Big Opportunities for Retail, Financial, Web Companies
- IBM Symphony orchestrating technical and big data applications
- Bringing Big Data to Smart Meters
- AutoGrid, Universal Big Data-plus-Apps Platform for the Smart Grid
- Big Data Job Alert The Data Scientist | Innovation
- Evidon Adds Chief Privacy Officer and Data Scientist to Leadership …
- Evidon Adds Chief Privacy Officer and Data Scientist to Leadership Team
- Application of Analytics Data Science Central
IT Jungle Anyone who has not already been handling Big Data (the capitalization makes it even bigger, don’t you think?) can take a seat in the waiting room. Dr. Gartner will see you momentarily. I’m no doctor, but I can tell you a few things about Big Data that … (more)
Greenplum is very excited to announce the availability of the Greenplum Chorus source code and continue its goal of enabling organizations to derive greater … (more)
ZDNet Online auction website Ebay uses big data for a number of functions, such as gauging the site’s performance and for fraud detection. But one of the more interesting ways the company makes use of the plethora of data it collects is by using the … (more)
GigaOM AutoGrid, a startup that’s developed a big data analytics engine for energy, officially launched on Monday and unveiled its first product, and its first two customers. Picture if you took Netflix or Amazon’s recommendation engines and used them for … (more)
Travel Weekly Big data is reshaping our world. Enhancing the vast amount of demographic detail currently available about individuals is a growing body of knowledge about our habits, preferences and situational behavior that’s collected with every purchase we make, … (more)
Business 2 Community This is an industry trends and perspective piece about big data and little data, industry adoption and customer deployment. If you are in any way associated with information technology (IT), business, scientific, media and entertainment computing or … (more)
Computerworld While the Hadoop platform performs well, it’s not fast enough for some key applications, says Curt Monash, a database and analytics expert and principal at Monash Research. For instance, Hadoop does not fare well in running interactive, ad hoc queries … (more)
eWeek Big data, and the ability to sift through and manage it, has become a core competitive advantage in nearly every industry, as successful companies are mining their data for information that might turn a series of seemingly random numbers and … (more)
ZDNet Summary: Developing low latency orchestration tools that can accelerate technical and big data applications requires vast knowledge of cluster and grid computing dynamics. IBM just released the results of several benchmarks that demonstrates mastery of … (more)
Technology Review Despite investing millions of dollars in smart meters, utilities have yet to fully capitalize on the data these two-way meters produce. Startup AutoGrid Systems is taking on the job of analyzing giant data sets so utilities can monetize that flow of … (more)
Greentech Media The smart grid presents an interesting problem for the world of big data, and particularly, the field of unstructured data. Where traditional data management requires its data to be formalized and regimented, unstructured data systems take their data … (more)
With the boom in big data and advancement in technologies built to collect and manage the petabytes of information, there is still a bit of a gap left in … (more)
From Yahoo! Finance: Evidon, the global leader in revealing the invisible web, today announced that it has appointed Todd Ruback as Chief Privacy Officer and … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) Evidon has also strengthened its leadership team with the addition of Kittrell as Data Scientist. Kittrell will conduct research to enhance the company’s existing products and help develop new offerings. Before joining Evidon, he led the data science … (more)
Author: Rahul Nawab, Co- founder, IQR Analytics and Promoter, ADSA (Academy for Decision Science and Analytics). In this article we will talk about some of … (more)