Outsmarting Wine Snobs with Machine Learning

For most of us, picking good wine is a bit like picking ponies: Everybody has a method, but at the end of the day, the results aren't much better than chance. But one budding wine connoisseur/hacker at a big data analyti Read more…

0xdata Aims to Turn Hadoop Into a Fortune-Telling Math Wiz

One of the interesting phenomenon surrounding the rise of NoSQL databases are the companies cropping up to turn that data into predictive insight. One company, 0xdata (pronounced Hexadata), has developed a toolset that is says is like using Legos to build predictive analytic models. Read more…