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May 23, 2013 |
Derrick Harris |
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratoryUniversity of Illinois researchers have created an app and a sensor-filled cradle that turn an iPhone into a mobile spectrophotometer. The combination of that mobile lab data and metadata such as...... |
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Derrick Harris |
Big data at work: 12 stories about reinventionBig data is cool and all, but is it really changing the way companies function? Yes. Here are 10 stories that show that transformation.... |
Revolution Analytics |
Highlights of the Milwaukee Workshop on R and Bioinformaticsby Joseph Rickert On May 10th and 11th, in honor of this being the International Year of Statistics, the Milwaukee Chapter of the American Statistical Association (MILWASA) held a workshop on cutting...... |
Infochimps |
Big Data: The Marketer’s (potential) GoldmineIn a world littered with seemingly endless streams of data, marketing has some interesting challenges. What exactly are we supposed to do with terabytes, even petabytes, of data? Unfortunately,...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
7th R/Rmetrics workshop in Switzerland, June 30-July 4The 7th annual R/Rmetrics Workshop om Computational Finance and Financial Engineering will take place June 30-July 4 in the beatiful alpine setting of Lake Thune, Switzerland. This is an intimate...... |
Mario Meir-Huber |
Microsoft Skydrive sync problems on Mac OSI recently updated my Skydrive to the newest version on Mac OS X. I am using 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion). However, I came across a sync... |
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Derrick Harris |
WibiData gets $15M to help it become the Hadoop application companyStartup WibiData has raised another $15 million and wants to turn the lessons it has learned in the field into generic software that can let anyone build predictive applications on Hadoop.... |
May 22, 2013 |
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Revolution Analytics |
Vote in the KDnuggets poll on Analytics SoftwareThe 14th annual KDnuggets poll measuring use of analytics software is open for voting. The poll asks, "What Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, Data Science software you used in the past 12...... |
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Mario Meir-Huber |
Eucalyptus: Cloud, Cluster and Node ControllerThis post is part of the Open Source Cloud Computing series. For an Overview, please click on the Tag. Cloud Controller The Cloud Controller – also... |
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Derrick Harris |
Concurrent is building a Hadoop assembly line in open sourceCascading creator Concurrent has developed a new open source tool called Pattern for running machine learning models on Hadoop clusters. When combined with its SQL tool called Lingual, users can move...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
R/Finance 2013 - quick takeby Joseph Rickert Last Friday and Saturday the fifth annual R/Finance Conference was held in Chicago: two coffee-fueled days of stochastic models, mostly very high quality presentations and most...... |
Attunity |
ARA Can Free IT to Deal With the CloudIT roles often change when businesses take on the cloud, creating an environment in which application release automation and similar technologies become necessary to help IT keep up with changing...... |
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Infochimps |
How To Do a Big Data Project: A Template for SuccessBig Data is sweeping the business world – and while it can mean different things to different people, one thing always rings true: data-driven decisions and applications create immense value by...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Big Data Republic's list of Top 20 Big Data Accounts on TwitterI'm very proud to have been selected today for Big Data Republic's list of the Top 20 Big Data Twitter accounts. With such Big Data practitioners, analysts and thought leaders like Kirk Borne, Hilary...... |
May 21, 2013 |
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Revolution Analytics |
Get your questions answered about Open DataThe OpenData StackExchange site has just launched in beta, and looks to be a great resource for open data sources. Like StackOverflow for programming and CrossValidated for statistics, OpenData is is...... |
Too Much Information |
Forthcoming webinar: Spice Up Your Big Data & BI Apps with a Little VarietyOn Wednesday, May 29 at 12:00 PM ET I’ll be taking part in a webinar with Datawatch on the subject of adding variety to your business intelligence applications. As the worlds of business...... |
May 20, 2013 |
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Revolution Analytics |
R programming challenge: Escape the zombie hordeSo when the world is taken over by a Zombie horde, you're going to want to figure out a way to get the human population to safety. This R script by econometrician Francis Smart won't help you do that...... |
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Attunity |
Big data requires integration, not separation, research suggestsThomas Davenport recently asserted that data integration is usually the ideal option for companies eager to leverage big data.... |
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Derrick Harris |
New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social networkA group of researchers from Columbia and Stanford have created a method for turning complex cellular datasets into visualizations that map the similarities between tens of thousands of cells within a...... |
Datameer |
How Sears is Using Datameer + HadoopOn my last post I shared how new social music discovery company TastemakerX is using Datameer for Big Data analytics to change the way people discover music. Today I’m excited to share how a...... |
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Derrick Harris |
Alteryx raises $12M to make predictive analytics user-friendlyAnalytics provider Alteryx has raised another $12 million as it tries to make statistical analysis a more consumer-friendly experience.... |
Curt Monash |
Some stuff I’m working on1. I have some posts up on Strategic Messaging. The most recent are overviews of messaging, pricing, and positioning. 2. Numerous vendors are blending SQL and JSON management in their short-request...... |
May 18, 2013 |
M. Kinde |
Spelling and National SecurityA former co-worker of mine always used to joke about our company’s customer database by posing the deceptively simple question: “How many ways can you spell ‘IBM’?” In...... |
May 17, 2013 |
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Derrick Harris |
Tableau closes Day 1 as a $2.9B public company, up 64 percentTableau had a successful IPO, closing the trading day up 64 percent and raking in $254 million. CEO Christian Chabot says the company is now set to make itself known around the world.... |
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Derrick Harris |
Database startup Drawn to Scale is closing downDatabase startup Drawn to Scale, creator of the SQL-on-Hadoop technology called Spire, is closing down. The company's product, Spire, was one of the first SQL-on-Hadoop technologies.... |
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Infochimps |
The President + Infochimps + AustinAs Austin continues to thrive, making Top 10 Lists for everything from innovation to affordable housing, President Obama himself came to see what’s going on. “I’ve come to listen and learn and...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Because it's Friday: Compendium of Logical FallaciesAhh, arguing on the Internet. Whether it's about politics, religion, culture or science, if you're anything like me you've had 1000 online arguments and changed the mind of exactly nobody. Still,...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
R 3.0.1 releasedThe R core group has quickly followed up with a patch to R version 3. Announced yesterday, R 3.0.1 (code name: "Good Sport") improves serialization performance with big objects, improves reliability...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Revolution Newsletter: May 2013The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full May edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can...... |
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Derrick Harris |
AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?It's easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services' to lose, but that doesn't tell the whole story. McDonald's dominates the fast food world, but life isn't exactly bad...... |
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Infochimps |
Tell Your Children to Learn HadoopI spent some time with several vendors and users of Hadoop, the formless data repository that is the current favorite of many dot coms and the darling of the data nerds. It was instructive. Moms and...... |
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Derrick Harris |
Tableau prices its stock at $31 per share for Friday’s IPOTableau's initial public offering is on Friday, and expectations are high. The company has inspired much of the next-generation analytics space, and how it fares could be telling about just how...... |
May 16, 2013 |
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Revolution Analytics |
Statistics vs Data Science vs BIAs someone who trained as a statistician, I've always struggled with that title. I love the rigor and insight that Statistics brings to data analysis, but let's face it: Statistics — the name — has...... |
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Attunity |
6 Key Characteristics of an Ideal Data Delivery SolutionIn today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are seeking improved corporate insight, agility, and competitiveness. Unlocking enterprise information and providing better visibility for...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Social Network Analysis at New Frontiers in Computing 2013by Joseph Rickert This past Saturday, the New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC 2013), held at Stanford University, explored the theme: Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know. The speakers...... |
BrightPlanet |
Why we’re different than Google searchWhen demoing our products, we often spend a lot of time answering questions about how BrightPlanet’s solutions are different than a regular Google search. Potential users often want BrightPlanet to search a certain keyword for them across the entire web. We don’t do that. Discover what we do, why it’s different than a Google search, [...]Read more » |
May 15, 2013 |
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Derrick Harris |
Google’s growing cloud just got a NoSQL databaseGoogle is expanding its cloud platform with a "NoSQL-like" database called Cloud Datastore. It's a fully managed database that's replicated across data centers and built to scale.... |
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Attunity |
Starting Disaster Recovery From Square OneEnterprises must take their time using data replication tools to build an ongoing disaster recovery program.... |
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Derrick Harris |
This is why big data is the sweet spot for SaaSWhen it comes to using big data technology effectively, there's a lot to like about SaaS. When companies like BloomReach create and analyze massive web-wide data sets, they automate insights that...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Top 3 R resources for beginnersThe community team at Revolution Analytics has just updated this list of resources to learn about R on the Web. Included is this list of the top 3 resources for absolute beginners getting started...... |
May 14, 2013 |
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Infochimps |
See You @ CloudCon ExpoCloudCon Expo & Conference, May 14-15, San Francisco CloudCon Expo & Conference brings you the opportunity to learn best practices and strategies for cloud deployment. A perfect event...... |
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Mario Meir-Huber |
Self service IT Requirements: Scalability and elasticityFor Cloud Solutions, Scalability and Elasticity are key requirements. In private Cloud Solutions, this should also be supported, even if scalability and elasticity might has... |
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Attunity |
3 Criteria to Evaluate Before Choosing a CDC Solution for Use with SSISData integration is always a complex task, made even more so when dealing with legacy or mainframe data sources. Using SSIS goes some way to simplifying the task; however SSIS does not do everything....... |
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Derrick Harris |
We’re witnessing the rise of the graph in big dataGraph databases and graph-processing applications have been popping up all over the place lately, and now they're starting to go commercial. On Tuesday, popular open source project GraphLab joined...... |
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Mario Meir-Huber |
Be part of the community – write about your favourite cloud/big data topic!CloudVane.com is a popular platform where articles about cloud computing and big data are published. It is listed as the Top 100 Blogs by the... |
Forrester Blogs |
Why Maturity Models for Data Governance are irrelevant in the Data Economy?There are multiple maturity models and associated assessments for Data Governance on the market. Some are from software vendors, or from consulting companies, which use these as the basis for selling...... |
May 13, 2013 |
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Derrick Harris |
With Lucky Sort creators on board, Twitter is officially a data companyWith its acquisition of Lucky Sort, Twitter seems to be acknowledging that it's a data company after all. The plan appears to be building a services that would do for Twitter equivalent to services...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
In case you missed it: April 2013 RoundupIn case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users: A critique of a SAS whitepaper comparing the performance of SAS, R and Mahout. A video presentation from...... |
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Derrick Harris |
Visualization is the future: 6 startups re-imagining how we consume dataIf the big data era is really going to revolutionize our world, visualizations that let more people make sense of data will be critical. Here are six startups trying to change how we interact with...... |
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Attunity |
9 Key Capabilities to Look for When Evaluating Any CDC TechnologyAn overview of key capabilities and functions required in a strategic CDC solution, and ones that you should look for when evaluating any CDC technology.... |
May 11, 2013 |
Simplified Analytics |
Big data Analytics in RetailAll the industry leaders like Wal-Mart, Axa, Citibank, Humana, GE and several others are exploring how Big Data analytics can be used to better understand customer needs, pinpoint risk, improve...... |
May 10, 2013 |
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Derrick Harris |
ScraperWiki lets anyone scrape Twitter data without codingA new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It's just one more way that data analysis is getting...... |
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Forrester Blogs |
Are You a Data Hoarder? We’re Betting So.As an analyst on Forrester's Customer Insight's team, I spend a lot of time counseling clients on best-practice customer data usage strategies. And if there's one thing I've learned,...... |
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Attunity |
Firms Must Plan Strategically to Avoid Data Warehouse Performance IssuesWilliam McKnight identified a number of common data warehousing errors companies make, and offered several pieces of advice as to how to avoid these mistakes.... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Because it's Friday: A visual history of meteoritesAt the aptly named website bolid.es you can see this nifty animation of all the meteorites that have been observed to land on Earth, from 861 to this February's spectacular event in Russia: The...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
A guide to speeding up R codeNoam Ross recently shared a very useful guide to speeding up your R code. Get a bigger computer (for example, renting an instance on the Amazon cloud for a few cents an hour) Use parallel programming...... |
Zementis |
Predicting the future ... in four partsI recently finished writing a four-part article series about predictive analytics entitled Predicting the Future. The topic is near and dear to my heart, since I have been working on the field since...... |
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Zementis |
Predictive Maintenance Solutions made possible by Big Data, Open Standards, and AnalyticsPredictive analytics is an integral part of our daily lives. At this very moment, predictive solutions are busy at work, monitoring financial transactions for fraud and abuse, recommending movies and...... |
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Infochimps |
Ironfan Takes Chef to the Next LevelUsing Ironfan with Chef Think like a system diagram, not your package installer. Ironfan builds on Chef’s robust systems integration framework with enhanced tools, powerful abstractions, and built-in...... |
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Revolution Analytics |
Webinar on Data Science, May 14A quick note that I'll be giving my take on the question, "What is a Data Science" along with Carla Gentry (Analytical Solutions, @data_nerd on Twitter) and Gregory Piatetsky (KDNuggets, @kdnuggets...... |
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