Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 8, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Michigan State University to Introduce Students to Analytics and Big
- AZGS releases framework for geoscience ‘big data’ initiative
- This Week in Big Data: Public Sector, Twitter Ads and More …
- How Big Data is Creating a Digital Nervous System for Business …
Data … Sacramento Bee EAST LANSING, Mich., Sept. 7, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Michigan State University today announced a new master’s degree program in business analytics to help prepare students for the jobs of the future. IBM (NYSE: IBM) is assisting the program with its … (more)
By Lee Allison
The EarthCube initiative is the prototype for the high-profile NSF Cyberinfrastructure for the 21st Century (CIF21) program, and touted as one of the premier components of the White House “Big Data” effort. The functions and guiding principles … (more)
By Maria Deutscher
Luminar is an emerging player in the analytics space that is poised to play a big part in the 2012 presidential election. The company touts itself as the first big data firm that focuses on the U.S’s Latino population, and it’s now offering politicians … (more)
It’s this growth of the digital nervous system that makes the techniques and tools of big data relevant to us today. The challenges of massive data flows, and the erosion of hierarchy and boundaries, will lead us to the statistical approaches, … (more)