Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 4, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

  • Data Scientist at Cablevision in Bethpage New York 11714 …

    • Cablevision – Data Scientist – Bethpage – Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), the n – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

  • Big Data skills gap needs filling says tech industry

    • Register “The next 50 years are going to be about data science, people who understand the semantics of data, how to visualize the data and present it to business people.” LinkedIn employs around 100 data scientists, he said, but the industry needs many more and … (more)

  • Oracle looks to clear air on big data

    • ZDNet SAN FRANCISCO–A company’s big data strategy should revolve around the correlation between unstructured and structured data, and not simply identifying how to capture unstructured data. Speaking to Asian media at the OpenWorld conference here … (more)

  • Information Nation: Digital Social Experiment to Put a Human Face on Big

    • Data Scientific American submit to reddit. HUMAN FACE, BIG DATA: Rick Smolan’s Human Face of Big Data project seeks to highlight big data’s potential by culling information directly from mobile gadget users worldwide. Image: Courtesy of Scientific American/Larry Greenemeier … (more)

  • Avoid data latency with Hadoop, Sears CTO says

    • TechTarget Read a partial transcript from this interview below, and watch the Q&A for more about reducing data latency and improving your data science program. Wendy Schuchart: Can you explain how Hadoopwill benefit midmarket sales by reducing data latency? (more)

  • Big Data Start-Up Raises $12M

    • Wall Street Journal (blog) RainStor, a start-up that helps companies manage large volumes of data, has raised $12 million in series C funding from its venture capital investors, Rogers Venture Partners and Credit Suisse . Existing investors Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, … (more)

  • Big Data startup Trifacta comes out of stealth with $4.3M in Accel funding

    • VentureBeat Trifacta is coming out of stealth mode today as the latest Big Data startup. Accordingly, it has raised $4.3 million from Accel Partners’ Big Data Fund. Trifacta is creating productivity platforms that make data analysts more productive. And the … (more)

  • ‘Big data’ concept has grown well beyond its diminutive beginnings

    • TechTarget Big data is a general term used to describe the voluminous amount of unstructured, semi-structured and textual data being created on a daily basis. Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about … (more)

  • NASA – NASA Tournament Lab to Launch Big Data Challenge …

    • NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced on Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, … (more)

  • Trifacta Aims to Make Big Data Useful, Lands $4.3 Million from Accel

    • Partners All Things Digital Trifacta’s aim is to help close that analysis gap by making data science more efficient, by making the data itself more easy to manipulate and rearrange. A lot of data analysis is simply asking what would happen if one condition or another were … (more)

  • Big Data: What is a data scientist? – Quora

    • What exactly are data scientists? How do they help businesses? Are there more types of data scientists? If yes, what are these? How does one become a data … (more)

  • Big data startup with UW ties lands cash from Accel

    • GeekWire That’s something that Seattle startup Context Relevant, backed by Madrona and led by data scientist Stephen Purpura, also is tackling in its own way. Context Relevant’s cloud-based application allows enterprise analysts and statisticians to function as … (more)

  • Education, Training Key to Federal Big Data Adoption

    • eWeek Indeed, training the federal workforce around analytics and data science are central to tapping into big data, according to a new report released by the TechAmerica Foundation’s Big Data Commission. The report, ‘Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide … (more)

  • Indiana University Supported Software Wins NASA Award

    • HPCwire “Receiving NASA’s Software of the Year Award is very exciting,” said Fox, whose parallel and distributed computing research has laid the foundation for significant computational and data science. “QuakeSim is a proven game changer, addressing big data … (more)

  • The Industrial Internet: Even Bigger Than Big Data

    • Forbes Big Data, a term that describes large volumes of high velocity, complex and variable data that require advanced technologies to capture, store, distribute and analyze information, is at a tipping point, with billions being spent to turn mountains of … (more)

  • Microsoft applies big data toward cataloging endangered species

    • ZDNet Microsoft applies big data toward cataloging endangered species. Summary: Developer lends expertise to help conservation group strengthen priorities on the “red list” of threatened plants, fungi and animals — keeping it updated much more easily … (more)