Today's Feature
GPUs Tackle Massive Data of the Hive Mind
LIVE from GTC12 -- The flock of birds that weaves seamlessly through the sky, propelled forward as one but without a leader. Or the school of shining fish darting through a sea of prey with one mind and lightening-quick collective reactions to stimuli. These are phenomena that one Princeton researcher, armed with Tesla GPU and CUDA.... Read more...
News in Brief
Home Automation Driving Data Innovation
Home automation is but one aspect of the unfolding era of the Internet of Things, in which nearly everything we own is connected--acting as a sensor, an information collector, or a locator. A report today that described the dramatic growth of this.... Read more...
Dispelling Predictive Analytics Myths
Predictive modeling is not a new concept, but it is one that has received an unprecedented amount of attention recently due to high-profile stories about the power of political and market prediction tools. However, notable thought leaders in enterprise.... Read more...
Chevron Drills Down Big Data Assets
Generating 1.5 terabytes per day is par for the course at an oil and gas company like Chevron, which is spearheading new efforts in the digital oil field. The company says that it is looking to new data mining and management techniques as it.... Read more...
Distributed Sensemaking for Everyday Big Data
This week researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University combined forces to tap the power of what they call distributed sensemaking. In essence, what their developments could yield are new ways of thinking about how average... Read more...
CEP Commands Database Deathwatch
Several in the arena of complex event processing, including TIBCO and StreamBase, have argued for some time that the days of the mighty database are numbered. Real-time streams of data that can provide in the moment actionable information are the.... Read more...
Wharton Professor Pokes Hole in Big Data Balloon
According to Dr. Peter Fader, co-director of the Wharton School of Business and marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, there are some glaring problems with the way vendors and enterprise execs are framing the conversation around big data. Read more...
Researchers Turn Data into Dynamic Demographics
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new, creative way to tap the ongoing stream of publicly-available social data to add spice to city demographic details. By harnessing real-time geolocation data, subtle cultural, class and other details about.... Read more...
Inside Europe's "Super Data Cluster"
Climate and atmospheric data is the key to solving complex global warming mysteries, understanding weather and global climate trends, and interpreting atmospheric events and their implications. As the number of sources grow, resources like Europe's "super-data-cluster" the.... Read more...
The Application Angle to Unstructured Data
This week, Tom Leyden from Amplidata broke the interview-as-marketing vehicle mold when he thoughtfully addressed what big data needs he’s hearing about, the shifting nature of applications, and the role of cloud models... Read more...
This Week's Big Data Big Ten
Week of April 27: We touch on news about tackling rugby injuries with analytics; investors taking a shine to Lustre; Sears Buys into Hadoop; Teradata sports new "sassy" appliance; supporting data-intensive science; analytics superheroes unmasked; and continued developments for in-memory analytics. Read more...
