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Lavastorm Enlivens Platform with R

Lavastorm was one of a handful of established analytics companies that has looked to the trusty, mature (if not somewhat complex) R statistical approach to add a dash of modeling and mining capability to its platform. We talk with the company's CTO about the... 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…

Inside LinkedIn’s Expanding Data Universe

This week we spent some time with LinkedIn team lead, data scientist and economist, Scott Nicholson to get a sense of what possibilities the big data of 150 million users present. We were able to get behind the scenes of the infrastructure and diverse stack (it's more than just Hadoop), and to tap into some visualizations that would make even a seasoned economist... Read more…

Interview: SAP Solidifies Predictive Strategy

Today SAP announced a new predictive analytics offering that leverages its HANA platform and the know-how gleaned from the BusinessObjects side of the fence. We spoke with SAP to find out how this move fits into their broader strategy.... Read more…

Pulling the Knife on Open Source Big Data

This week we spent some time addressing a few of the more popular open source tools for attacking big data problems with Jeffrey Breen, who expanded on how R is the "Swiss Army knife" for big data, how Hadoop can really go to work for.... Read more…

SAP Takes a Pass on SPSS

It remains to be seen if this move will make SAP a stronger player in the market. However, moving away from SPSS along with this new application certainly provides new potential for their analytics platform, which also means that.... Read more…

A Revolution for Open Source Big Data

This week during an interview, David Rich, the new CEO of Revolution Analytics, shed light on his future at the helm of Revolution Analytics. He provided a sense of what the company faces as the world of analytics gains unprecedented.... Read more…

Oracle Flags Down R Users with Analytics Option

Today Oracle announced a new piece to its enterprise analytics capabilities via the addition of an option to include the open source R statistics language within bundles of its enterprise R and data mining offerings that the company... Read more…

Revolution Analytics Sparks New Uses for R

Advocates and beneficiaries of the open source R language, Revolution Analytics, has been on a mission to prove the enterprise value of R by sharing use cases and new ideas. This week they announced the winners of their contest to show how R can improve.... Read more…

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