Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 27, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Your Own Big Data Lookin’ at You
- Big data = big opportunity, say Indian IT and business professionals
- GNS Healthcare and Aetna Using “Big Data” Analytics to Help Prevent Heart
- Is Data Scientist the Sexiest Job of the Century | Harvard …
- Data Scientist – Big Data – Hadoop at QuickenLoans, Detroit, MI
- Data scientists command high compensation
- Startup Precog says big data doesn’t need to be so complex
- Big Data Draws Interest Of Analysts TIBX, SPLK, INFA, TIBX, BIRT
- Is ‘Big Data’ Marketing’s Next Frontier?
- ‘Big data’ management? More like ‘big decisions’ management
- Treasure Data Offers Big Data Analysis for the Rest of Us
Forbes Some people aren’t happy with the ever growing stream of big data available on the general population. Some of these people are pissed off, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started by Mitch Kapor, who brought you Lotus 123. Others want more … (more)
Express Computer Designed to assess the state of big data projects and understand big data strategies, the survey reveals an aggressive move on the part of organizations to master big data for business advantage, with the majority of enterprises, nearly 70%, now … (more)
and … Sacramento Bee CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — GNS Healthcare today announced a new program with Aetna (NYSE: AET) that aims to treat and prevent metabolic syndrome. The syndrome significantly increases the risk of developing heart disease, … (more)
Hey good lookin’. Yep, I’m talking to you, or at least the data scientists reading this. (The rest of you are incredibly good looking, intelligent, … (more)
Dive into large data sets of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to discover hidden knowledge about our business and develop methods to … (more)
FierceCIO Maximizing the value of big data requires data and the right tools, but the most important resource is the data scientist and you don’t come by one cheap. That is the argument made by Thomas H. Davenport, senior adviser to Deloitte Analytics and a … (more)
GigaOM Rather than rely on Hadoop or any other popular data-management tools to build a platform for democratizing data science, Precog decided to build its own system from scratch. That makes Precog stand out from the crowd, but it also means there’s little … (more)
Investor’s Business Daily FBN Securities on Thursday initiated coverage of five companies that work in the growing field known as Big Data, and shares of all five were up in early afternoon trading. “We are quite bullish on the space,” FBN analyst Shebly Seyrafi said in the report. (more)
CMSWire Big data is everywhere, both literally and figuratively. On the figurative side, it’s hard to escape the hype about big data, the term appearing in headlines of major national newspapers and business publications (most recently the cover of the … (more)
TechTarget The other main point Trainer made is that big decisions about big data need to be made either from the top or with 100% buy-in from the top. In the case of Lilly, it was senior management who made the push for the genome data initiative. “If you are … (more)
DABCC.com SMBs, it is time to start thinking Big Data. Hadoop-based analysis of unstructured data, which is the Next Big Thing for large enterprises, has now been brought within reach of SMBs and large company LOBs and small divisions by the Treasure Data Big … (more)