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Python Eats Into R as SAS Dominance Fades

A new survey of data science tools shows that Python usage is quickly gaining steam among advance analytic professionals, at the expense of both R and SAS. Last month the executive recruiting firm Burtch Works publish Read more…

Inside the Analytic Transformation of Pitney Bowes

Who is Pitney Bowes? For some, the 96-year-old company is synonymous with 20th century technology, like mailing machines and postage meters. But after Tuesday's launch of its new Commerce Cloud, it's clear the company se Read more…

Anaconda Platform Gets Boost From Intel

The latest version of the Anaconda open source analytics platform incorporates Intel Corp.'s math kernel library (MKL) to significantly boost performance. Version 2.5 extends Anaconda capabilities rolled out last fall. Read more…

Inside the Zestimate: Data Science at Zillow

If you're like most homeowners, you probably sneak a peek at your 'Zestimate' from time to time to see how your home's value might have changed. Getting a Zestimate is very easy and straightforward for users, but behind Read more…

Python Versus R in Apache Spark

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives users an alternative to Read more…

Microsoft Scales Data Lake into Exabyte Territory

Microsoft today announced its Azure Data Lake, an HDFS-compatible data repository designed to store vast amounts of structured and unstructured data for customers who want to analyze or explore it later with their choice Read more…

Spark Steals the Show at Strata

There was a lot of good stuff on display at last week's Strata + Hadoop World conference. But if there was one product or technology that stood out from the pack, that would have to be Apache Spark, the versatile in-memo Read more…

Microsoft Readies Major Push Into Big Data

Microsoft has a lot of irons in the fire. Always has and always will. But judging from its recent acquisition of Revolution Analytics, the early success of its hosted machine learning service, and the forthcoming public Read more…

Alteryx Adds In-Database Blending

The latest release of an analytics platform combines data "blending" with predictive analytics tools intended to help combine large datasets with databases rather than just subsets of data. Alteryx Inc. said Thursday Read more…

How Open Source is Failing R for Big Data

At this year's UseR! conference in Los Angeles, John Chambers, the father of the S language and thus grandfather of the R language, noted that R was designed as an interface to the best algorithms. And indeed the R langu Read more…

Microsoft Spins Up a Machine Learning Cloud

Microsoft today revealed Azure Machine Learning, a new hosted machine learning offering that will become available as a public preview next month. The new cloud offering is geared at helping data scientists get a powerfu Read more…

A ‘Revolution’ for Open Source R Support

Revolution Analytics today debuted AdviseR, a new services offering for data scientists who need a little help coding in R. For $795 per person per year, R coders can get access to Revolution's R experts and knowledgebas Read more…

Startup Says ‘What If’ to Genetic Data Analytics

The surge in popularity of genetic testing is creating a tidal wave of data that people are eager to use to improve their health. But as we saw with 23andMe, there is a concern that raw genetic information can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Today BaseHealth emerged from stealth mode with an innovative approach to this problem that blends data from genetic testing, scientific research, and a patient's own medical history, all under the supervision of a doctor. Read more…

Avoiding Big IT Outlays with Cloud-Based Analytics

If your organization has adopted a big data strategy, chances are good that it's also making big capital outlays to support that strategy. One firm that's hoping to short-circuit the hardware and software investment cycle is GoodData. Today the San Francisco company announced the addition of Hadoop to its cloud-based big data analytics stack, giving it the capability to ingest and store a whole new level of data. Read more…

Alpine Debuts ‘Chorus’ Line for Big Data

Greenplum spin-off Alpine Data Labs is best known as a developer of proprietary algorithms that do the hard work of crunching vast data sets in Hadoop and other big data platforms. With today's launch of a new product called Chorus, Alpine is borrowing ideas from the social media world for the purpose of bringing together all the big data stakeholders in an organization. Read more…

Revolution Ships RRE7 to Marry R with Hadoop

Organizations that are looking to apply statistical analysis to data stored in their Hadoop clusters got a shot in the arm today when Revolution Analytics formally announced the availability of Revolution R Enterprise version 7 (RRE7), the newest version of its parallelized library of R statistical functions. Read more…

Alteryx and Revolution Partner to Foster R Adoption

Big data analytics vendors Alteryx and Revolution Analytics today announced a multi-year, multi-pronged partnership that will give Alteryx customers the capability to access Revolution's R-based statistical functions--including in-database functions running in Teradata--directly from the Alteryx user interface. Read more…

Teradata Gets In Deep with R

Because the demand for data scientists has far outstripped supply, software vendors have stepped up to fill the gap. Teradata did its part when it announced today that it has parallelized the full body of R statistical functions from partner Revolution Analytics and made them available in the new 14.10 release of its eponymous database. Read more…

Putting the “R” Into Hadoop

With the amount of data being fed into Hadoop these days, it’s natural for customers to want to do some statistical analysis upon it. Revolution Analytics, which distributes a commercial version of the R statistical environment, says it has lowered the bar of entry for R programmers to work with Hadoop by parallelizing many of the R algorithms. Read more…

HP Diving Deeper into R Parallelization

Despite R’s popularity as a statistical tool, its single-threaded nature might be a short-coming in scaling its use as a tool for big data applications. Not if they can help it, says HP. Read more…

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