Big Data

Big Data Meets Big Compute | Peter Levine – Andreessen Horowitz

Big Data Meets Big Compute
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion […]

Big Data Meets Big Compute | Peter Levine

Big Data Meets Big Compute
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion […]

Adatao Emerges With $13M In Funding And Visions Of Changing …

Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]

Big Data Bootcamp | Asystec

August 7, 2014Great feature on Asystec in this week’s Business and Finance magazine, read the full article here:http://businessandfinance.com/ones-to-watch-july-2014/Asystec Big Data Analytics Institute – 3 day courseAsystec, in collaboration with Persontyle and Eiura, are hosting a 3 day bootcamp in DCU from the 18th – 20th of August 2014. This bootcamp will be a fast paced, hands-on introduction to predictive modelling […]

Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 Toronto: Day 1 Highlights

Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from TD Bank, Public Health Ontario and First Nations Education Steering Committee on day 1 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 in Toronto, Canada. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 6, 2014.As many organizations are now working with unmanageably large data sets, the importance of using and maintaining an analytics platform which can cope […]

Precision ag big data conference – Ohio's Country Journal

Precision ag big data conference

August 6, 2014
Never miss the latest news affecting Ohio agriculture. Subscribe to Digital Dale and follow along via Facebook and Twitter.Did you know that over two-thirds of every dollar spent in agriculture is spent on decisions focused on seed selection, fertility, and land access? Producers annually compile new information around input selections, farming practices, and risk […]

Big Data and Off Grid Solar Development | The Energy Collective

When it comes to energy access, we’re fond of saying small is big.That’s because all those small scale solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar mini-grids add up to a very big market. But the size of that market, and its social impact, could well be dwarfed by an even larger opportunity the solar revolution is engendering. With the explosion […]

Big data really needs a 'big mechanism,' DARPA says — Defense …

Defense ITBig data really needs a ‘big mechanism,’ DARPA saysBy George Leopold
Aug 06, 2014
A Defense Department research program seeks to leapfrog advanced big data analytics by developing automated search technologies that could help explain the causes and effects that drive complex systems.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched its “big mechanism” initiative earlier this year with the goal of developing […]

Will Big Data Answer Big Questions on Health? (Science Friday …

In an interview with Science Friday, Dartmouth’s Jason H. Moore weighs in about Google’s new data collection project, called Baseline Study, which is attempting to paint a picture of human health by cataloging the DNA of healthy people, along with their blood, saliva, tears, and more.
“As a data scientist I am really excited about the Google Baseline Study,” says Moore, […]

Smartzip Analytics raises $12M for real estate big data tool …

Real estate brokers spend a lot of time looking for potential buyers and sellers, and now they’re putting some big data and analytics muscle into their work.Smartzip Analytics owns a big pile of property and demographic data that can help brokers understand the desirability of a property. But the company’s main draw is a product called “Smart Target,” which uses big data […]