Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 3, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Data Scientist Jobs Hiding Under Less Sexy Titles | Big Data
- 9 mistakes that will kill the best data analyses – Data Science …
- Saudi businesses placing emphasis on transformational changes
- HotelTonight Acquires Restaurant Reservation Startup PrimaTable, CEO
- Data scientists urged to share their big data skills with UK charities
- Apple’s ‘Mapocalypse’ Highlights Big Data Battle
- Demo 2012: Has “Big Data” Become a Buzzword?
- EMC names new CTO to oversee cloud, big data strategy
- Agencies Launch Big Data Contest, Projects
- Data Scientist at Twitter in San Francisco – Job | LinkedIn
- Virginia Tech to tackle the ‘Big Data’ challenges of next-generation …
- Big Data Program Funds Genome Data Analysis Project
- NASA tries to free creativity with Big Data Challenge
- Tech industry delivers report on government Big Data
InformationWeek Big Data is a timely, expert source of news, analysis, and case studies on big data issues impacting enterprise IT groups and information … (more)
Can you mention a few more? Sampling or design of experiment not properly done Non robust cross-validation Poor communication of results to management … (more)
MENAFN.COM Organizations that wish to leverage the technologies fully, he said, will need to embrace new roles, such as the Data Scientist and Cloud Architect, and enable new ways of working. By transforming their business, IT and employee structures, Saudi … (more)
Jamie … TechCrunch … of the deal are not being disclosed, but the companies say PrimaTable CEO Jamie Davidson (a former YouTube and Google engineer) will be become HotelTonight’s vice president of product, while his co-founder Colin Zima has been named data scientist. (more)
IT PRO Altruistic members of the UK’s burgeoning data scientist community are being called upon to volunteer their services to help third sector organisations extract value from their big data. US-based DataKind was set up to help charities find IT … (more)
Wired (blog) Android, meanwhile, has proven remarkably accurate at recognizing human speech and returning accurate answers. Again, it’s all about Big Data. Speech recognition used to be a novelty for consumers, something to be used if you had Carpal Tunnel or … (more)
PC Magazine Yesterday afternoon, the Demo 2012 conference had a session on new “big data” products. But there is one big issue: most of these aren’t using the quantity or speed of data that most of the products I think of as big data use, suggesting that “big data … (more)
Computerworld In the new post, Nick will focus on big data and emerging applications initiatives, EMC said. Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas … (more)
AOL Government NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy launched a new public challenge contest Wednesday to generate novel approaches to using “big data” information sets from various U.S. government agencies. Dr. Suzanne Iacono … (more)
Twitter is hiring! View and apply for the Data Scientist Job at Twitter in San Francisco. (more)
Phys.Org In all, NSF and NIH announced a total of eight new projects in response to a call for proposals on “Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering,” or “Big Data,” in March of 2012. They run the gamut of scientific … (more)
GenomeWeb The grant was one of eight new awards totaling $15 million announced today by NSF that are being funded under the Core Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering program, called Big Data, which launched in March. Big Data’s aim is … (more)
GigaOM … Big Data Challenge is just the latest it’s hosting for NASA via the agency’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation and NASA Tournament Lab. There’s also general-purpose platform InnoCentive and wildly popular data science platform Kaggle. (more)
ZDNet I’m especially keen to see whether government agencies can attract data science talent or if much of that work will have to be contracted out. I would think that successful Big Data outcomes in government will rely on policymakers’ involvement and … (more)