Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 8, 2012

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

  • Big Data: A Short History – by Uri Friedman

    • Foreign Policy (blog) Humans have been whining about being bombarded with too much information since the advent of clay tablets. The complaint in Ecclesiastes that “of making many books there is no end” resonated in the Renaissance, when the invention of the printing press … (more)

  • IBM Preps Big Data, Cloud “Project Sparta” Announcements For October 9

    • IT Jungle IBM Preps Big Data, Cloud “Project Sparta” Announcements For October 9. Published: October 8, 2012. by Timothy Prickett Morgan. April was a busy month for IBM with a slew of Power Systems and IBM i announcements, and October is shaping up to be a … (more)

  • Alteryx Opens Big Data-Analytics Apps Studio For The Rest Of Us

    • TechCrunch Alteryx has opened a big data-analytics apps studio for people who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of data science. The service is available as part of Alteryx 8.0, the analytics provider’s latest release. The intent is to make data analytics … (more)

  • ScaleOut Analytics Server Targets Big Data

    • TechWeekEurope UK State Server is deployed across a cluster of servers doing big data analysis in memory rather than on a separate database server. It’s intended for analysing rapidly changing data such as shopping carts on an ecommerce site, stock trades at a financial … (more)

  • Info scientists prepare to rule the roost

    • The Australian In his paper “The Professional Data Scientist Intelligence Report”, he defines the data scientist’s mission as “to serve and inspire others in the organising, packaging and delivering of information. In short, the data scientist turns data into value … (more)

  • TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission

    • Across government everyone is talking about the concept of Big Data, and how this new technology will transform the way Washington does business. Looking … (more)

  • Data science to become more normal in the next few years, expert says

    • Women in Technology “Also, as data science teams continue to grow in prominence in business and even research, we’ll see their roles and expectations normalise, as many still are rather exploratory and ad hoc,” she explained. She said that this will also prove beneficial … (more)

  • Opportunities To Play The Explosive Growth Of Big Data

    • Seeking Alpha In this article first I’ll give a personal slant to the Big Data story, based on my experiences in the IT field. I’ll then give a few examples of companies that have favorable long term prospects benefiting from the Big Data revolution and growth of … (more)

  • The Big Data revolution: Big Bang or loud noise?

    • Register Today the words ‘Big Data’ are currently used and abused in a myriad of ways. From these it is possible to distill the term as shorthand for a number of advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high volume and/or fast … (more)

  • Help Wanted: Data Scientist | GRT

    • The biggest problem with Big Data, as it turns out, is not the data itself. Nor is it the hardware and software needed to handle even vast quantities of unstructured … (more)

  • Reverse data science: a viable business? – Data Science Central

    • I’ve seen a few companies unhappy with vendors charging expensive monthly fees to provide data science based scoring technologogy: for detecting fraud, … (more)

  • Python for Data Science – Data Science London (London, England …

    • In this session we will discuss some applications of Python for data science. 6.30 pm Welcome and networking, free beer+pizza 7pm Talk Starts “NumPy, the … (more)