Data At Work profiles data scientists working at the cutting edge of big data.
Konstantin Gredeskoul knows what you want.
He’s the CTO of Wanelo, one of the online-shopping startups that’s pioneering the Visual Web. It’s a wicked mixture of Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram with a simple twist—everything you see on Wanelo is for sale online. Its more than 10 million […]
By Gurdev Singh Virk
A recent bull run in India’s benchmark stock index isn’t being mirrored in the midcap index, which tracks the country’s midsize companies.
A bronze bull statue at the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Bloomberg News
While the Bombay Stock Exchange’s S&P BSE 30-stock Sensitive Index, or Sensex, has risen 9% […]
As 2013 winds down, it’s only natural for people to make personal New Year’s resolutions for 2014. It’s also a perfect time for technology industry predictions. This is the fourth installation in our multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014″ series in which industry providers—from Big Data to cloud to mobile—share their predictions about the hot tech trends that will take center stage […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Dec. 19, 2013 – Companies are recognizing the value of social media as a marketing and brand management tool, as well as customer service and support channel. Social media is also becoming a core consumer and business-user forum. Consequently, social media analytics emerged as a popular tool to measure social-site traffic, but more importantly, to obtain […]
Jeff Magnusson, manager of Data Platform Architecture at Netflix, gave a presentation at QCon SF 2013 Conference about their Data Platform as a Service. Following up to this presentation, we will try to further explain how the technology stack lies and how it helps Netflix to tackle important business decisions.Netflix has more than 30 million subscribers worldwide. Every user provides […]
TweetThe theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP Bullhound predicted that some of the most exciting developments are in the fields of Predictive Analytics and Advanced Visualization.The “Exabyte […]
Agile and Lean techniques seem to be the best way we currently know to create complex software in the face of risk, uncertainty, and changing requirements. Agile hinges on embracing and adapting to change by enabling rapid feedback cycles and evolutionary development. However, bringing agility into big data (and small data) analytics has been a challenge for many, very bright […]
