Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 19, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Big Data Triggers Business Priority Shake-up, According to new Ricoh Study
- TechLines panelist profile: Archimedes’ Katrina Montinola
- data scientist – Project – Kaggle
- Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century – Harvard …
- Investigative Data Science: The Rise of Computer-Assisted …
- Eric Fischer’s Work Blurs the Line Between Data Science – Greenplum
- Social Data and APIs: Join ProgrammableWeb in SF at DataWeek
- Intelligence Agency Invests In Big Data Management
- Big Data – Why Warren Buffett Invested $10 Billion In This High-Tech Trend
- The cost of keeping Hadoop open-source
- BI Meet Big Data, I Think You’re Going To Be Friends
- Big Data Triggers Business Priority Shake-up, According to new Ricoh Study
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com The report reveals the major global trends impacting businesses operations. These include big data, with 91 per cent of respondents citing the increasing amounts of data they now face as having the most impact on their ability to manage critical … (more)
ZDNet Montinola, vice president of engineering for Archimedes, just completed a Hadoop implementation. To understand how Archimedes needs big data to thrive as a business, it helps to ponder healthcare, evidence based medicine and simulating clinical trials … (more)
Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions. Companies, organizations and researchers post their data and have it scrutinized by the world’s best … (more)
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up. The company had just under 8 … (more)
Here’s a dirty little secret about the news business: If you walk into any newsroom today and flag down a passing journalist, the odds that they will know the. (more)
During a talk earlier this year at the Big Data for the Public Good seminar series, Stamen’s Eric Rodenbeck emphasized that data scientists are not only … (more)
ProgrammableWeb (blog) The rest of DataWeek is full of API-related topics, such as big data, developer ecosystems and data science labs. Your ticket gets you access to the ProgrammableWeb event, as well as the entirety of the DataWeek schedule. Register for DataWeek using … (more)
InformationWeek The platform can be used for operational intelligence, content management, and high-volume data feeds, according to 10gen. It also can be paired with Hadoop for big data management. “MongoDB is built to leverage big data and holds great promise for the … (more)
Seeking Alpha “Big data” refers to the volume of digital data being collected around the world. Over the past two years, we’ve seen an explosion in data creation. Everyday, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to … (more)
ITWorld Canada Hortonworks has been the largest contributor to the open-source Hadoop project, which offers a way out of the big data dilemma for many enterprises. its efficiency at processing heaps of data and scalability make it ideal for the purpose. As open … (more)
Business 2 Community Each minute, there are 1,500 blogs, 98,000 tweets, and 168 million emails sent. In fact, with all this data, Forrester predicts over the next few years we will outperform Moore’s Law. In this year alone we will hit of a volume of 2.7 zettabytes of … (more)
Sacramento Bee Emerging trends such as big data have triggered a major shake-up of business priorities, according to a new study from Ricoh Europe. The report, conducted on behalf of Ricoh by Coleman Parkes, entitled Ricoh Document Governance Index 2012, has been … (more)