Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 24, 2012

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

  • U. of Utah scientist tackles Big Data with visualization

    • Salt Lake Tribune Our ability to generate data is far outstripping our ability to do useful things with it, says Miriah Meyer, a University of Utah computer scientist who is on a mission to tame the beast called Big Data. Meyer, who joined the Scientific Computing and … (more)

  • Big Data is talking. Are you listening?

    • Computerworld Australia IT executives are always encouraged to lead, follow or get out the way. In the case of Big Data, you bet may be to led. Just over half of organisations (54 percent) are already devising Big Data strategies to generate more value from existing data … (more)

  • Big Data and the Big Apple: Understanding New York City using …

    • Big Data and the Big Apple: Understanding New York City using Millions of Check-ins. Sep … (more)

  • Big Data Analytics a Big Benefit for Marketing Departments

    • CIO Marketing analytics used in conjunction with big data will help many organizations properly evaluate their marketing performance, gain insight into their clients’ purchasing habits, market trends and needs and make evidence-based marketing decisions. (more)

  • South Korea Ship Builder Tacks to IBM to Help Tame Big Data

    • R & D Magazine Seoul, Korea – 17 Sep 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), one of the world’s largest shipbuilding and offshore companies, has engaged IBM to build a stronger and more resilient IT environment … (more)

  • The inexact, but improving, science of mobile ad targeting

    • GigaOM Read more in Data. Forget your fancy data science, try overkill analytics. Stay on top of data news in your inbox. Get a daily roundup of news and analysis about everything data (see a sample): Subscribe. You’re on the list. Congratulations! You can … (more)

  • Big Data Means Big Performance

    • Database Journal The term Big Data is very common, and is used to connote large data stores (typically in an enterprise data warehouse) that are queried with high-speed data analytics software. To understand what this means, we break down the components of Big Data and … (more)

  • Temple conference explores business value of ‘big data’

    • Newsworks.org “What we’re trying to focus on are success stories,” says conference organizer and Temple business professor David Schuff. “So instead of just talking in the abstract about what big data can do, we’re having people exchange stories about what it has … (more)

  • Retailers See ‘Big Data’ Benefiting Ecommerce, Marketing Strategy

    • The FINANCIAL A survey of North American retail executives conducted by the research and content service company Edgell Knowledge Network in May through June 2012 found that only 17% were unaware of the concept of Big Data. As eMarketer announced, the … (more)

  • Big Data and manufacturing priorities

    • CIO UK An important aspect of the manufacturing executive’s job is to illustrate the connection between operations and corporate strategy, prioritise investments, and identify how to best measure progress and milestones. It starts with the alignment between … (more)

  • This Week in Big Data: Cisco Gets Smart, Cloudera Games Up …

    • By Maria Deutscher
    There were several highlights from the analytics space this week, including a couple of major partnerships. Syncsort, a maker of data integration software, signed up for the Cloudera Connect Partner Program to get its DMExpress platform … (more)

  • LucidWorks: Bringing Search to Big Data

    • Forbes The Data Scientist Will Be Replaced By Tools 4,229 views; IBM Buys Big Social Data 2,239 views; Infochimps’ New CEO on the Next Big Data Acquisition and Getting Rid of Data Scientists 1,923 views; The Data Science Interview: Mingsheng Hong, Hadapt … (more)

  • Data Scientist at Concur Technologies in Alexandria Virginia Job …

    • Concur Technologies is hiring! View and apply for the Data Scientist Job at Concur Technologies in Alexandria, Virginia. (more)

  • Food Genius Helps Food Industry Understand Trends with Big Data Tools

    • Forbes Food Genius entered the crowded market of dish recommendation apps last year, using big data to revolutionize the way people discover restaurants and dishes. At the time, the startup’s focus was on getting (scraping) as much menu-level data as possible … (more)

  • Big data, big jobs? – Computerworld

    • As companies embrace big data, they’re in the market for high-level strategists and communicators. Do you have the chops to snag a big data job? (more)