SummaryNeither Apple’s purchase of Beats nor Amazon’s recent music launch represent direct competition to Pandora which competes for revenue with terrestrial radio broadcasters (e.g. Clear Channel, Cumulus & CBS).
Pandora is really a Big Data technology company which uses its industry-leading data analysis algorithms to […]
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Senators Focus on Improving Healthcare Through Big DataSenate Finance Committee leaders want to empower healthcare consumers through the widespread availability of health data.Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) have queried stakeholders in healthcare about what would improve health data sharing and usage. This is a major issue for the Healthcare Leadership Council, which has released […]
Terry Speed, a emeritus professor in statistics at University of California at Berkeley, gave an excellent talk on how statisticians can play nice with big data and data science. Usually these talks go in the direction of saying data science is statistics. This one is more on the useful, non-snarky side.
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Data collection and exploitation is a growing phenomenon; in response to industry and grassroots demands the European Commission is today calling on national governments to wake-up to this “big data” revolution.Vice President Neelie Kroes said “It’s about time we focus on the positive aspects of big data. Big data sounds negative and scary, and for the most part it isn’t. […]
In its Communication on the data-driven economy, the European Commission outlines a raft of measures aimed at helping SMEs exploit Big Data to win new commercial opportunities.Think of Big Data and the image is of oceans of infinitesimal bytes of disparate information even the largest corporations struggle to manage. The stats are overwhelming. Every single minute, the world is said […]
2014 Cannes Review : Big Emotion trumps Big DataJuly 1, 2014 at 8:21 by BridgetAfter looking through the winners this year at Cannes, it felt like Big Emotion trumped Big Data. I’ve put together a selection of what I found to be the most interesting work from the festival with this overarching theme in mind. 2014 #Canneslions Review : “Big […]
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Given the amount of hype surrounding it you could be forgiven for thinking that big data is the answer to most business and scientific problems.But a new survey by database specialists Paradigm4 reveals that almost three-quarters of data scientists believe that big data has made their research harder. The reason for this is not, as you might expect, the volume […]
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]]>Databricks thinks the open-source Spark engine is the next big thing for big data processing — so it has teamed up with analytics firm Alteryx to supercharge the software.The two data startups intend to drive Spark into the hands of more data analysts through a formal partnership, Databricks and Alteryx have revealed to VentureBeat. They will become the primary committers to Apache Spark, the […]
