Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 5, 2012

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

  • Do newspapers need to adopt data science to cover campaigns …

    • While campaigns have a public presence that is mostly recorded and observed, the stuff that … (more)

  • ‘Big data market in India to touch $1 bn’

    • Financial Express The global ‘Big Data’ market opportunity is estimated to grow at 45 per cent annually to reach USD 25 billion by 2015, from the current size of about USD 8 billion, according to a report launched by IT industry body Nasscom and Crisil today. It added … (more)

  • Infochimps’ New CEO on the Next Big Data Acquisition and Getting Rid of

    • Data … Forbes Jim Kaskade’s crystal ball shared with him recently a list of upcoming big data acquisitions: EMC will buy MapR, Oracle will buy Cloudera, and Teradata will buy Hortonworks. Kaskade, the newly-appointed CEO of Infochimps, believes CIOs are ready to … (more)

  • Tackling the Big Data Challenge

    • BankInfoSecurity.com Future planned reports include a focus on providing specific actionable information for big data security and privacy, creating standards for big data security and privacy best practices and establishing security and privacy test beds to help … (more)

  • Big Data Opportunities

    • Express Computer That’s where big data analytics comes in handy. Big data analytics breaks down huge amounts of data to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations and other useful information. Such information can provide companies with a competitive advantages … (more)

  • Big Data: What Makes a Data Scientist Good?

    • Formtek Blog (blog) The rise of Big Data brings along with it a need to have skilled workers that can analyze and make sense out of all of it. These workers are being called ‘data scientists.’ Mike Driscoll, the founder of Big Data company, Metamarkets, said that a data … (more)

  • Hadoop Operations – Free Sampler

    • InfoWorld With this digital Early Release edition of Hadoop Operations, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also … (more)

  • Big Data Day to take place at Wolfe Center on Friday

    • BG News This research will be explained and emphasized during Big Data Day, an event which will be hosted Friday from 1 to 5:30 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre in the Wolfe Center. The event will feature eight speakers, said Michael Ogawa, vice president of … (more)

  • Bringing ‘big data’ to the modern battlefield

    • VentureBeat Imagine being able to predict when a war will break out. Well, scientists are trying, and they’re getting awfully close. In 2010, when the WikiLeaks scandal broke, a group of friends gathered together at Bitly Inc in New York to try to bring order to … (more)

  • Use Big Data to Predict Your Customers’ Behaviors

    • blogs.hbr.org (blog) The beauty of such Big Data applications is that they can process Web-based text, digital images, and online video. They can also glean intelligence from the exploding social media sphere, whether it consists of blogs, chat forums, Twitter trends, or … (more)

  • How Microsoft’s Big Data Policy Change Could Affect You

    • TechNewsDaily Sandwiched between the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Microsoft’s service agreement changes barely caused a ripple. In an email to users, Microsoft described its changes as a redrafting designed to make its policies easier to … (more)