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Getting Big Data to the Good Guys: SF Brings Business Intelligence …

By Stephen Goldsmith & Christopher Kingsley.Chances are very good that the last call you received from a congressional campaign was personal. A volunteer chose your seven-digit number, out of thousands in the ward, because an algorithm comparing dozens of data points on when you registered, how you’ve voted, and what kind of truck you drive suggested that you were persuadable. […]

Planning professor-turned-entrepreneur to help SF tackle urban …

BERKELEY — Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.His high-tech startup “Synthicity” has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco’s six new […]

With A Focus On Big Data Startups, Data Collective Redefines …

The music was bumping and the drinks were flowing at a dimly lit San Francisco nightclub on a spring evening in 2009. But two voices rose above the sound of the music.You wouldn’t think that big data would be the topic of conversation on this evening, but that’s the subject that brought Data Collective founders Matt Ocko and Zack Bogue […]

This Small City's Police Department Builds An App, Nabs Big Data …

Rochester, Minnesota (pop. 109,000) is a small city perhaps best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic.But that doesn’t mean the town’s police department is not busy–and connected. Last year the Rochester Police Department (RPD) decided to build an app to keep its officers’ 160 work smartphones connected and in communication when on the job. Like other tech-savvy departments, […]

March-June Analytics, Big Data and Data Science Meetings

Coming soon: PAW San Francisco, GigaOM Structure, Predictive Analytics/Big Data Innovation Summits, Big Data Techcon, INFORMS Boston, SPB 14, SDM 14, PASS Business Analytics, PAKDD 2014, and many more.
By Gregory Piatetsky, Mar 4, 2014.
Here are upcoming 45 March – June 2014 meetings and conferences.
You can find the full list on KDnuggets page:

Meetings / Conferences on Analytics, […]

Datameer Secures $19 Million for Big Data Analytics | Data Center …

Datameer Secures $19 Million for Big Data Analytics

December 20th, 2013
By: John Rath

Big data analytics firm Datameer raises $19 million to grow the company, DataOn becomes certified to take advantage of the Storage Spaces feature on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, and Panzura helps Mead & Hunt offload storage to the cloud.
Datameer raises $19 million.  Big data analytics company Datameer […]

Stock Market News for December 4, 2013 – Zacks Investment …

Signs of a weak holiday shopping season and apprehensions over the central bank trimming its economic stimulus plan dragged benchmarks into the red on Tuesday. Profit booking also turned out to be a deterrent for the markets. The Dow and S&P 500 extended their losing streak into a third day. These losses come after benchmarks recorded eight consecutive weeks of […]

Swipp emerges from stealth to launch ambitious social sentiment …

Swipp emerges from stealth to launch ambitious social sentiment platform | PandoDaily

Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired […]