The Big Potential of that Little Data Miner in Your Pocket

In just a few short years, mobile phones have become an irreplaceable part of our daily lives. But the next few years could see phones having an even bigger impact on our lives, thanks to improvements in the area of context-aware computing and the capabilities of phones to extract potentially useful data about their owners, including location, movement, intentions, and whether you're having a heart attack. Read more…

Hospitals Take to Mining for Lives

For hospitals that use sensors to monitor heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and other vitals, data mining could prove valuable. A new technique outlined in the paper, “Searching and mining trillions of time series subsequences under dynamic time warping,” by Thanawin Rakthanmanon et al, may make it possible to search a dataset with a trillion or more entries. Read more…

The GPU “Sweet Spot” for Big Data

GPUs have stirred some vicious waves in the supercomputing community, and these same performance boosts are being explored for large-scale data mining by a number of enterprise users. During our conversation with NVIDIA's Tesla senior manager for high performance computing, Sumit Gupta, we explored how traditional data... Read more…

One Giant Leap for Psychohistory

SGI's UV2, which it touts as the world’s largest in-memory data mining system, is behind a recent project to "map the world according to Wiki" and reveal insights about the connections between history, society and geography. The researcher behind the project who is known for his.... 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…

Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs

This week we whittled down the small but growing list of "big name" universities that are helping to solve the big data technologies talent gap. From degrees in data science to more specific certification programs for current IT professionals, these six schools.... Read more…

Data Mining for the Masses

Without sentimentalizing in either direction on the topic, Alexander Furnas, a master’s candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and author of the data mining cheat sheet, removes the judgment and explores what data mining is, isn’t, and..... Read more…

GPUs Set to Boost Business Intelligence

GPU-driven companies like NVIDIA have been emphasizing the practical application of GPU computing in enterprise settings—and this year at their annual GTC conference, there are several compelling sessions for the business intelligence and.... Read more…

New Techniques Turbo-Charge Data Mining

Data mining is nothing new, but over the last few years the frameworks, software and hardware tools that support it have matured by leaps and bounds to accommodate massive data growth...and new techniques, including spectral feature selection are adding new dimensions to an old algorithmic regime. Read more…

Doing the Math: The Future of STATISTICA

When it comes to time-tested solutions for data analysis, many software packages have come and gone. One, in this case STATISTICA, which has had a steady foothold in academia, might be bursting forth with new energy into the enterprise scene according to some. Read more…