Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 9, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- A Stunning Vision of our Interoperable Future
- Big Data Grant Winner Includes Rajasekar
- Data scientist is new hot job for college grads
- The Big Data Nemesis Simplified
- Big Data And Storage: Why You Can’t Save Everything Forever
Big Think For the past several years, we’ve been hearing a lot about Big Data. There’s a huge amount of information being collected about us and our world – so much that it seems impossible to organize or use to its full potential. Recently, for example, we … (more)
Equities.com University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Arcot Rajasekar will lead one of eight research teams that have won a Big Data grant – a new federal funding initiative that aims to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize and … (more)
ksl.com Meyer says she is constantly seeing advertisements for data scientist-types of jobs. She says every industry today needs data visualization, from healthcare and music to science and technology. “Something like Foursquare,” Meyer said. “I don’t even … (more)
Huffington Post Big Data is one of the hottest buzzwords in Information Technology based on its one-year hockey-stick trend curve in Google Trends when compared to other hot IT buzzwords. In fact, per Google Trends, its interest level is about 40% of “Cloud Computing … (more)
Forbes The amount of information we are generating is going up exponentially while the cost of storing it is not going down fast enough for us to be able to store all of it. That’s the key message of a recent paper from David S. H. Rosenthal of the Stanford … (more)