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9 Places to Get Big Data Now

Discussions of big data often revolve around what new technologies and processes people are using to analyze data. Hadoop, in-memory databases, and machine learning algorithms are getting lots of attention in this regard Read more…

Gnip’s Take on the Library of Twitter

Last week, we highlighted the Library of Congress’s effort in archiving the entire Twitter database. Chris Moody, President and COO of Gnip, spoke to Datanami on the challenges and the prospects going forward of the Twitter-LOC project. Read more…

Building the Library of Twitter

On an average day people around the globe contribute 500 million messages to Twitter. Collecting and storing every single tweet and its resulting metadata from a single day would be a daunting task in and of itself. The Library of Congress is trying something slightly more ambitious than that: storing and indexing every tweet ever posted. Read more…

Greenplum, Kaggle Team to Prospect Data Scientists

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, businesses in the United States alone will be short 140,000 to 190,000 data scientists by the year 2018. Greenplum intends to help solve this problem with a complete open sourcing of their Chorus platform and the resulting partnership with Kaggle, a website which fosters growth in the data science community by hosting data mining competitions among its 57,000 participants. Read more…

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