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COVID-19 Roundup: Risk, Reopening, Recognition & More
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…
Rockset Expands SQL Links to Tableau
Rockset, the serverless operational analytics vendor, is expanding its network of data connections through a partnership with data visualization specialist Tableau to develop real-time dashboards for NoSQL data. The part Read more…
Database, Data Management Upgrades Keep Coming
Data analytics and database vendors vendor continue to churn out new versions of their platforms that integrate new features like cloud-native functionality and more granular views of structured and unstructured data. Th Read more…
Startup Rockset Adds SQL to DynamoDB
Rockset, the serverless search and analytics startup that emerged last fall from stealth mode, this week unveiled its SQL platform targeting NoSQL data from Amazon Web Services’ DynamoDB. Rockset, San Mateo, Calif., Read more…
Kognitio Pivots SQL Data Warehouse Into Hadoop
If you're in the market for a SQL-on-Hadoop solution, you have many options to consider. And now that Kognitio has adapted its proven massively parallel processing (MPP) in-memory SQL database to run under YARN and MapRe Read more…
Tableau Automates K-Means Clustering in V10 Refresh
The upcoming release of Tableau 10 will introduce new features aimed at simplifying how customers use advanced analytic functions upon their data, such as a new k-means clustering algorithm that works in drag-and-drop fa Read more…
Platfora Seeds Big Data Future in Openness
Platfora launched its end-to-end analytics application for Hadoop when the only other option was to build your own. To that end, Big Data Discovery has everything you need. But with today's update to the tool--issued on Read more…
Tumultuous Times for BI and Analytic Tool Vendors
My, what a week it was for business intelligence (BI) and analytic tools. First, industry darling Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) lost half its market capitalization following earnings that disappointed Wall Street, which Read more…
Trifacta Tops Off with $35 Million Round as Big Data Sales Kick In
Data wrangling software developer Trifacta today announced that it took in another $35 million in venture funding, bringing the three-year-old company's total funding to $76 million to date. The company's CEO tells Datan Read more…
Three Ways Zoomdata Makes Big Data Pop
When it comes to big data visualization tools, there's no shortage of players. Tableau, Qlik, Spotfire, and Microstrategy are established incumbents with big followings. But there's a fresh crop of visualization tools ma Read more…
AtScale Claims to Mask Hadoop Complexity for OLAP-Style BI
AtScale came out of stealth mode today with new software designed to trick business intelligence tools into thinking that Hadoop is a standard database upon which they can perform OLAP-style analysis, as opposed to the h Read more…
Tableau Aims to Speed Analytics with V9
Tableau Software has long positioned itself as a provider of tools that help you visualize big data, but hooking up to big data sources has not always been easy, and the resulting analyses have not always run as fast as Read more…
Apache Spark Ecosystem Continues To Build
Apache Spark was everywhere at the recent Strata + Hadoop World conference. From Tableau's new Spark interface to the new Spark as a service (SaaS) offerings and Intel's new Spark initiative, the big data framework was v Read more…
Tableau Throws a Brick at Traditional BI
Upstart business intelligence software vendors like Tableau Software have made a good living denigrating big BI vendors for some time. Tableau took the practice to new heights at its annual user conference this week, when its founders compared traditional BI to close-minded thinking, stone-age writing implements, and Mayan death chants. Read more…
Visualizing the Big Data Job Market
Where are all the big data jobs? Well, one answer is ‘virtually everywhere,’ as more companies and institutions realize that harnessing big data in some form is necessary to keep up with the competition. However, to provide a more detailed and creative answer to that question, Tableau created an interactive visualization to illustrate exactly where relatively lucrative (based on their average salary figures) data science and analyst jobs exist in the United States. Read more…
Visualizing Big Data’s Key Partner
Visualization is vital to managing big data. The proper charts, graphs, and other representations of large datasets can let business users see trends they would not know existed otherwise. And after having a busy week at Hadoop World, Tableau appears to be on the forefront of the big data visualization market. 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…
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…
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