Big data could bring “a second Age of Enlightenment”, according to PwC partner Matthew Tod, an expert in digital analytics.“We’ll understand what is going on in our world much better,” he argues. It will “turn the lights on”.But businesses need to act fast, he says, not just because they risk being left behind but because it may become more difficult […]
Chip giant Intel has found a way to demonstrate the value of big data analytics in the big health care industry. It’s partnering with Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and working on a study that will pull patterns from data coming from patients’ wearable devices.The collaboration, which Intel announced at an event this morning, will give Intel an opportunity […]
In my recent VentureBeat post, I explored the emerging field of crowd science, how this sub-niche of data science is at the intersection of analytics and psychology, and how we apply it to our customers’ innovation processes at Mindjet. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon numerous articles and news events that involve concepts from crowd science, leading me to believe it […]
Invitation to Big Data Analytics World Championships 2014We invite members of the R-Bloggers/R-Users community to participate in the inaugural 2014 TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships (www.texata.com). You’re Free Discount Code is: 2014RUSERS (normally $30 fully paid entry). Here are important dates for the TEXATA educational business competition:Round 1 on 18th October 2014 (Online)Round 2 on 1st November 2014 (Online)World Finals on 22nd/23rd November 2014 (Austin) About TEXATAThe […]
This week in DevOps shows big data and and DevOps are two of the latest IT trends to intersect–and just as with BI and big data, they unlock new potential for organizations when leveraged together.XpoLog continues to build log analytics software for applications on a variety of infrastructures in DevOps and production support using Hadoop. GigaSpaces Technologies continues to innovate […]
Of course, Google has been busy. In the past few years, researchers have cooked up a complex and powerful new data-warehousing system called Mesa.Mesa was born out of Google’s core business: Internet advertising. To serve its advertising customers and internal needs, Google collects detailed information about a given ad, and it has to record and process that data in real […]
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 29, 2014–MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced that it is one of the first to receive Big Data Competency status from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now part of the new AWS Partner Network (APN) Competency Program, AWS has named MapR as a Big Data Competency Partner based on customer […]
Stock Market Bubble WarningStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 29, 2014 – 10:38 AM GMTBy: Barry_M_FergusonEveryone has an opinion as to whether or not US stock indices are in a bubble at the present (July, 2014). Given a moment’s reflection, I came up with ten reasons US stocks are indeed in a bubble.1) Fed Chair Yellen expressed concern in mid-July (2014) […]
By: Nancy Zambell of Street AuthorityA “follow-up” market crash could be coming.I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time…The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com burst. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse.It’s getting close to another seven […]
All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card […]
