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Bayes Impact Launches To Harness Big Data For Social Good

Andrew Jiang, Paul Duan and Eric Liu, the three founders of Y Combinator’s latest nonprofit, Bayes Impact, aren’t your typical entrepreneurs.The engineer, data scientist, and investor had previously worked on or analyzed investments in some of the toughest problems facing all technology companies in the Internet era — how to get more people to click on more stuff.But in recent years […]

Bay Area data scientists have come together to support this big data …

Imagine that your local ambulance and fire dispatch runs on an algorithm developed with the help of the data scientists who built Lyft’s grid-optimization system.Bayes Impact, a big data focused nonprofit, launched its fall 2014 fellowship last week to make that actually happen.Former Eventbrite lead data scientist Paul Duan, nonprofit veteran Andrew Jiang, and former Thomvest Ventures analyst Eric Liu founded […]

100 Big Data Companies Analyzed – KDnuggets

We analyze the CRN Big Data 100 for insights into trends in the future of Big Data companies, including changes in database solutions, active regions, and what industries are undergoing the most change right now. comments//By Grant Marshall, June 2014.We analyze the lists included in the CRN Big Data 100 to find trends related to Big Data companies.First, we […]

Code for America reduces ER calls in Long Beach using big data …

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]]>Updated at 11:56 a.m. PST to show the Long Beach project is in progress, not complete.Code for America is working on a project that uses big data to reduce emergency room calls in the California city of Long Beach.Rhys Fureigh, Molly McLeod, and Dan Getelman are the three Code for America 2014 fellows working on the Long Beach […]

Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In …

Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among the larger tech startups tipped for an IPO – is also making strategic acquisitions to help keep its own house in order.We have found out that Dropbox has quietly acquired a company called Parastructure, a startup still in stealth that builds data-analysis […]

Big Data Talks. – Rants – Autoextremist.com ~ the bare-knuckled …

Editor’s Note: The industry’s obsession with Big Data seems to have taken on a life of its own. Consider this: A recent study from the Center for Automotive Research cites estimates that 480 terabytes of data were collected by vehicle manufacturers in the year […]

Stock Market News for May 20, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks ended a narrow trading session in the green on Monday, boosted by gains in Internet, bio-tech and small-cap stocks. However, developments on the deals front were mixed, limiting the Dow’s gains. While AT&T agreed to acquire DirecTV, Pfizer’s final bid was rejected by AstraZeneca. As the day was devoid of any major economic data, investors focused their attention on […]

Microsoft's Infinity Room makes big data beautiful | The Verge

San Francisco played host to a special mirrored room last month for an impressive illustration of big data. Software giant Microsoft was in town for its SQL Server 2014 launch party, and the carefully choreographed room was the centerpiece of the company’s push towards data analysis. The Infinity Room mixes LED animations, pixel spheres, and a narrative around how a […]

How Big Data Can Predict the Success of Your Startup – The Next Web

Kes Thygesen is the co-founder and head of product at RolePoint,a recruitment platform where the pipeline is driven by high-quality employee referrals.Big data. You’ve heard about it. You’ve read about it. Maybe you’re building tools that are shaping it. No matter if you’ve taken advantage of it or not, big data has the power to let you analyze success with more […]

Big Data Platform InsideSales.com Raises $100M From Polaris …

Another big round for a fast-growing enterprise startup focused on big data and the cloud. InsideSales.com has raised $100 million at a valuation of almost $1 billion, a number first reported by DJ’s Venture Wire, and now confirmed by us with a reliable source close to the company. Polaris Partners led the Series C round, with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers the other major investor, along […]