Imagine a map that shows years of rising sea levels in a matter of seconds, and the water is surrounding your house. There might soon be an app for that.
That’s the sort of visualization that the Obama administration believes can spark action toward climate adaptation in communities around the nation. To help push technologists to create these new climate tools, […]
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CEO Ben Werther asks: Who needs a gut feeling in business when you’ve got the facts?Platfora says it can analyze all of a company’s data to help executives make better decisions.FORTUNE — The big data startup Platfora announced on Wednesday that it raised $38 million in a series C round led by Tenaya Capital.The round also included Citi Ventures, Cisco, […]
Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, has raised $38 million led by Tenaya Capital, which brings the company’s total financing to $65 million. Also participating in this round are Citi Ventures, Cisco Systems and Allegis Capital, as well as prior investors Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and In-Q-Tel.Platfora works with existing Hadoop clusters, […]
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In order to safeguard the future health of their businesses, operators need to be confident that the decisions they make today are the right ones. Networks have to run at optimal efficiency while still delivering a first-class customer experience. The only way to achieve this is by having access to timely, relevant data across your business and operations to support […]
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).Did you know the average […]
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Posted on: 5:55 am, March 18, 2014, by Staff Writer, updated on: 04:32am, March 18, 2014High-tech combines and satellite connections pose a new problem for farming: Who gets all the data? In the past, it was assumed all the information farmers collected was theirs, but with internet sending data straight to massive hubs, large corporations have valuable farming habits and […]
In leading up to Structure Data, we’ve written some fabulous content about our speakers and the topic of big data. Here’s a roundup of the highlights.(Structure Data kicks off this Wednesday in New York. Snag your ticket here.)Structure Data themes and featuresBanking startup LendUp shows why design is king as big data gets personal
How new tech can help lawyers rethink […]
