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Understanding Trumps Insight

“What have you done for me lately?” That’s the question many companies are asking of big data, which stands accused of being nothing more than a fad. For many, advanced analytics is still just that – too advanced Read more…

Arcadia Emerges with Visual Analytics Running Directly On Hadoop

Arcadia Data today emerged from stealth mode by announcing $11.5 million in Series A funding and the limited availability of its flagship product: a Web-based visual analytics tool served directly from Hadoop. In Hado Read more…

MongoDB Connects With BI, Visual Tools

MongoDB announced a batch of new business intelligence and data visualizations features along with a new way of linking its database to standard versions of the analytics tools. The new capabilities along with a new d Read more…

Startup Delivers Visual Search Tool for Neo4j Graphs

Organizations looking to give their business analysts a quick and easy way to explore and visualize data stored in Neo4j graph databases may want to check out Linkurius, which today debuted the enterprise version of its 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…

A Virtual Reality Lens for Big Data Visualization

Visualization tools such as Tableau and QlikView have become indispensable for exploring and identifying trends hidden within data. But now a company called Space-Time Insight is taking big data visualizations to a new l Read more…

Driving Analytics into Facilities Management

The world of facilities management is not a particularly advanced one when it comes to information technology, let alone the use of big data. But that's starting to change, particularly with the type of self-service anal Read more…

Data Companies Work With Citizen Scientists on Climate

Storage vendor EMC Corp. is joining forces with big data and cloud specialist Pivotal and the EarthWatch Institute in an effort to apply analytical tools to the study the impact of climate change. The partners along w Read more…

Self-Serve BI Demand Up, User Satisfaction Down

Despite a growing consensus among business users about the value of do-it-yourself data analytics, less than a quarter of the respondents to a recent survey said they have the means to use self-service business intellige Read more…

GPU-Powered Terrorist Hunter Eyes Commercial Big Data Role

A company called GIS Federal that's helping the U.S. Army track the movement of terrorists across time, space, and the Internet using a distributed, GPU-powered, in-memory database is gearing up to head out into the comm Read more…

Top Three Things Not To Do in Excel

Let’s face it: We all have seen a crazy Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or encountered one of its dreaded “Not Responding” messages. Unfortunately, the flexibility and ease of Excel makes it the ideal candidate for ina Read more…

LA Data: Cities Ponder Responsible Use of Big Data

Given its traffic, sprawl and glitz, Los Angeles has to be one of the great data-generating cities on Earth. In response, Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed the City of Angels' first "chief data officer" tasked with overs Read more…

The Storytelling Mandate of Big Data

Data has become a natural resource, pouring from every nook and cranny in our digital universe. But data by itself is useless, requiring humans or machines to mold it and refine it and make something useful from it. One Read more…

Forget the Algorithms and Start Cleaning Your Data

The idea that the combination of predictive algorithms and big data will change the world is a tempting one. And it may end up being true. But for right now, the industry is facing a reality check when it comes to big data analytics. Instead of focusing on what algorithms to use, your big data success depends more on how well you cleaned, integrated, and transformed your data. Read more…

What Color Is Your Data? Inside the Science of Data Visualization

Data is the raw material of the 21st century, the commodity at the base of a booming digital economy. Like oil and gold, people mine it, refine it, and combine it with other things. Data has become the most sought-after substance in the world. But please: Just don't ask to see it. Read more…

Birst Knows Best for Data Visualization

Regular business folk who have trouble operating today's high-powered data visualization tools are the targets for a new offering unveiled today by Birst. Called Birst Visualizer, the product employs a guided approach to data discovery that picks a visualization for the user based on basic search terms, and then automatically populates it with the pertinent business data. 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…

Tableau’s Data Vis Suite Gets Speed and Flexibility Boost

Tableau Software announced today the general availability of their Tableau 8.0 analytics and visualization software, aimed at making their insight tool more flexible and accessible for organizational data. Read more…

The Week in Big Data Research

This week's big data research and development stories cover a wide area, as researchers from Europe, China, and the United States figure out how to use big data to solve biomedical problems on this planet along with finding and storing data on other planets. Visualization and archiving big data in large databases also got its share of attention this week. Read more…

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