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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…
Predicting Financial Markets with a Google Search Counter
New research out of London corroborates in a simple manner the ability of big data to predict behavior, as it found that if one were to place investments solely based on change of Google search terms over time, one would have made a profit of 326 percent between the years of 2004 and 2011. Read more…
Can Big Data Throw Cable a Life Raft?
With the advent of on-demand streaming, the value of must-see television is diminishing. As streaming services like Netflix and Hulu cut into network shares, the broadcast industry has been forced to adjust to the evolving interests of its customers. Read more…
Behold, Google’s Time Lord
Maintaining temporal consistency across a worldwide network is a surprisingly difficult yet important task. Databases need to decide the correct order in which transactions across the world took place, a process made complicated by the amount of time it takes for satellites and data centers to receive the proper time from each other. Enter Spanner, Google’s system designed by engineers Andrew Fikes, Wilson Hsieh, Jeff Dean, and Sanjay Ghemawat which essentially standardizes time across its various satellites and data centers. Read more…
MapR Traces New Routes for HBase
This week we spent time with MapR during an event pre-Strata hosted with Google to understand why, HBase is a natural target area since it’s becoming a stable part of many production environments. The company says that around 40% of Hadoop users opt for.... Read more…
How Google’s Dremel Makes Quick Work of Massive Data
Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera, an important Hadoop-based vendor, is looking past Hadoop and toward today’s research projects. That includes one named Dremel, possibly Google’s next big innovation that combines the scale of Hadoop with the ever-increasing speed demands of the business intelligence world.... Read more…
MapR Floating Google Cloud
MapR scored a major coup in the public cloud arena when they secured an exclusive deal with Google to provide software for Hadoop services relating to their recently announced Google Compute Engine. The company's Jack Norris spoke with us about... Read more…
What it Takes to Deliver Real-Time Traffic Info
Providing real-time traffic updates is a practical and feasible application of the big data analysis technology that exists today. While there are multiple companies plugging away at the task of delivering actionable information based on real-time streams of GPS.... Read more…
Google Guru Highlights “Data Imperative”
Last week at the Strata conference, Google's analytics guru discussed what he calls the big data imperative and pointing to the ways that the it is not being met in constructive ways. In addition to providing a few tidbits of knowledge about the.... Read more…
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