Today's Feature
Software Development Strategies for the Age of Data
Being able to unlock the value in big data with the almost unlimited and economical processing power of modern commodity hardware is enough to make both technologists and business leaders drool – if the software pieces of the puzzle can catch up, says Actian CTO, Michael Hoskins. Hoskins says we've entered a wild west phase in the age of data.Read more...
News in Brief
Mozart Meets MapReduce
Big data has been around since the beginning of time, says Thomas Paulmichl, founder and CEO of Sigmaspecto, who says that what has changed is how we process the information. In a talk during Big Data Week, Paulmichl encouraged people to open up their perspective on what big data is, and how it can be applied.Read more...
Big Data Week Demonstrates Big Energy in Big Data
Big data week took place last month with events happening around the world. From London to LA, meet-ups, conferences, and webinars took place to ask the questions surrounding what is big data, how can it be harnessed, and what is its future. Read more...
Television Ratings Company Moves on Analytics
As a television ratings measurement company, Rentrak collects a massive amount of granular information on television viewer habits for all 210 of America’s media markets, incorporating information from over 24 million televisions. The company says it's moved on an analytics platform to help manage their discovery.Read more...
Taming the Ocean (literally) of Big Data
The ocean covers approximately 139 million square miles (or 361 million square kilometers) of the Earth’s surface. That’s approximately 70% of the total surface area of the Earth, and it represents an enormous opportunity (and challenge) for data collection. OneOcean aims to harness the data of the world's seas.Read more...
Foreman: Don't Forget the "What" and "Why" in Big Data
Data scientist John Foreman, says in big data we've forgotten the "what" and the "why" and jumped straight to the "how." He discusses why the exciting part of any big data project should be the business that's being done, and not necessarily the technology that enables it.Read more...
Nate Silver Warns Against Big Data Assumptions
While there are many uses today for big data, the general principle is thus: more data equals bigger sample sizes from which more accurate representations can be drawn. However, noted statistically inclined prognosticator Nate Silver warned at the RMS Exceedance Conference in Boston this week that an over-abundance of data can be dangerous and counter-productive if managed improperly. Read more...
Cloudera Launches Open Source CDH Developer Kit
On Wednesday Night, Cloudera launched its first-ever developer kit aimed at simplifying common tasks and building applications in their CDH Apache Hadoop distribution.Read more...
Using Open Source Data to Identify Security Threats
Open source data, such as social media streams and online forums provide a great tool for security analysts to identify threats and take precautions to thwart them, however with the amount of data that is available, they must turn to the algorithms to do the heavy lifting.Read more...
Bringing Dark Data to Light
One of the chief challenges of big data, especially where established science and research is concerned, is bringing what is called “dark data” – the data that is hidden in tables and texts of the massive stores of scientific journals – to light. A research team is working on this problem combining several research areas into a potentially powerful tool.Read more...
Raising a Pack of Data Scientists
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, by the year 2018 there will exist 190,000 unfilled data scientist positions. North Carolina State University is one of the educational institutions looking to assemble a curriculum and a program that helps fill those jobs. Read more...
