A profile of KDnuggets, including an overview, history, and present highlights, is featured on the homepage of INFORMS, a major society for Analytics and Optimization (until June 23, 2014).comments
By Gregory Piatetsky,
@kdnuggets, Jun 11, 2014.
INFORMS, which stands for The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, is the largest professional society in the field of […]
Yesterday, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Haxl, a Haskell library used to greatly simplify access to remote data, such as databases and API web-based services. This release continues a trend of Facebook’s strong bent towards data science and the processing of complex datasets, and at the same time sustains a commitment to the open source community.The Haxl project (the combination […]
The ups and downs of Obamacare — from its passage to its rollout and now implementation — have consumed Washington, D.C., and American politics.But for those who run companies — and provide health insurance to more than half of all Americans — not much has fundamentally changed. Health care is still a business disease: U.S. enterprises spend more than $620 […]
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Big Data Veracity and the Value of Doubt
by David Lawson | Jun 11, 2014 | Big Data, Cognitive Computing, knowledge, Relationships, Veractiy |
The fourth V of Big Data – Veracity – is not talked about a lot perhaps because it brings up the uncomfortable reality of the inherent uncertainty of data, especially Big Data. The more data sources you […]
In today’s world where social media plays such a central role for so many people, it’s only natural that companies would want to get in on the action. With big data in the cloud and analytics tools such as Hadoop Hive, it’s easier for companies to use social media to their immediate advantage.There are many different reasons for wanting to […]
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CFP: IEEE BigData Oct. 2014
By The Editors | June 10, 2014
This workshop will address applications of “big data” in the humanities, arts, culture, and social science, the challenges and possibilities that such increased scale brings for scholarship in these areas.See full posting here
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CFP: IEEE BigData Oct. 2014 | Digital Humanities Now
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It has come to my attention that Leon Trotsky, the Russian communist theorist, would be very much at home in a different global plan to replace the status quo with radical change.I know this because it is easy to imagine a Big Data/cloud proponent saying to traditional data warehouse users what Leon said to capitalists:“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you […]
Continuing the growth of its software business applying big data analytics technologies to the human resources market, Visier has managed to attract $25.5 million in new financing.The new round will help the company expand into new verticals and consolidate its position in the human resources category, according to investors and the company’s chief executive John Schwartz.The former head of Business […]
