New book: Big Data, Mining, and Analytics: Components of Strategic …

This book ties together big data, data mining, and analytics to explain how readers can leverage them to extract valuable insights from their data. Big Data, Mining, and Analytics: Components of Strategic Decision MakingBy Stephan Kudyba
Hardcover: 325 pagesPublisher: Auerbach Publications (March 24, 2014)ISBN-10: 1466568704Illustrating basic approaches of business intelligence to the more complex methods of data and text mining, […]

Upcoming Gigaom event: three innovators who are shifting the big …

Our Structure Data speakers are building the infrastructure that will run the applications of the next decade, establishing partnerships that will change the face of how big data is interpreted and utilized, and they are foreseeing trends that most of us read about. From startup to enterprise, these trailblazers are worth taking note of. Here are three you shouldn’t miss […]

Belfast-Based Analytics Engines Closes $1.6M For Its Big Data …

Analytics Engines — a Belfast-based company that has developed a suite of plug-in ‘software accelerators’ allowing for complex analytics and real-time processing of Big Data in finance, genomics, and utilities — has closed a $1.6m/£1m funding round. The investment will be used to speed up productisation and exploitation of IP, and expand the company’s global footprint. The company has partnered […]

'Big data' collection from Google can be misleading: Study | Latest …

A significant research has put ‘big data’ collections from platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook in the dock, stating that campaigns and companies can manipulate these platforms to ensure their products or issues are trending.To cement their view, authors examined Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trend (GFT) which was designed to provide real-time monitoring of flu cases around the […]

What is Big Data? | MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Open source solutions

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What is Big Data? | MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Open source solutions
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Pitney Bowes Enhances Big Data Platform – March 13, 2014 – Zacks …

Pitney Bowes Enhances Big Data Platform

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March 20 Webinar: How to Scale MySQL for Big Data Applications …

March 20 Webinar: How to Scale MySQL for Big Data ApplicationsPosted onMarch 13, 2014byAmanda JordanYou may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have.Register Now!SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, TokutekDATE: […]

Editors' Choice: The Red Herring of Big Data | Digital Humanities Now

….Although the Big Data Initiative only includes scientific agencies, it turns out that the humanities have been involved for just as long. In 2009, when Data.Gov was being launched, the first Digging into Data Challenge was held. Sponsored by the NEH and comparable organizations in the UK and Canada, the eight winning Digging into Data teams used high-performance computing stacks […]

Innovating to create comprehension of big data and the Internet …

Higinio O. Maycotte is CEO of Umbel, a company that uses data to increase the understanding media companies have of their audiences and online advertising revenue. Knight Foundation supports Umbel through its Enterprise Fund. Below, Maycotte writes about the theme of the first Knight News Challenge of 2014: How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?

TIBCO Connects Big Data To Cloudera, Hortonworks, Pivotal

TIBCO Connects Big Data To Cloudera, Hortonworks, Pivotal

March 12th, 2014
By: John Rath

TIBCO broadens big data connectivity options to Cloudera, Hortonworks and Pivotal, MapR is selected by Rocket Internet for a powerful behavior analysis system, and BMW selects IBM big data and analytics for boosting customer satisfaction.
TIBCO adds connectivity options to big data sources. TIBCO Software (TIBX) announced TIBCO Spotfire customers now […]