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Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool Clari Raises $20M More To …

It was just in April that Clari — a mobile-first sales tool that uses data science and predictive analytics to help sales people do their jobs — emerged from stealth with $6 million in backing from Sequoia. Today the company is announcing another funding milestone: a Series B round of $20 million.Andy Byrne, the company’s founder and CEO, says Clari plans to […]

What you missed in Big Data: Democratizing analytics | SiliconANGLE

Accessibility has turned out to be the unifying theme for analytics this week,  with a slew of updates pushing the envelope on ingesting and processing data. Taking the cake is Facebook’s decision to open-source Haxl, an internally-developed library designed to make it easier to pull information from multiple sources.Written in Haskell, a language that is particularly well-suited for analytics thanks […]

TraderFeed: Making Technical Analysis Dynamic

A while ago, I posted on the topic of divergences appearing in the U.S. stock market. Specifically, we were near all-time highs in the large cap averages, but a significant number of stocks were making new lows and small caps in particular were dramatically underperforming. When I examined past instances of such underperformance, I found very different results […]

Leon Trotsky on EDW and Big Data? Of course! | SiliconANGLE

It has come to my attention that Leon Trotsky, the Russian communist theorist, would be very much at home in a different global plan to replace the status quo with radical change.I know this because it is easy to imagine a Big Data/cloud proponent saying to traditional data warehouse users what Leon said to capitalists:“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you […]

Why people are the real power behind big data | Pearson Labs

10JunKristen DiCerbo is a research scientist at Pearson, and co-author of Impacts of the Digital Ocean on Education, where she makes the case for the potential of data to transform teaching by using it to decipher how students learn. Responding to a post on The Guardian by professor Diana Laurillard of the University of London, Kristen argues that realising the full […]

Greg Winn and Jim Mayes, App It Out 2013 Winners, Discuss Getting

“The path to a commercialized web-based service is certainly not as linear as one might expect, especially today.” – Jim Mayes, co-founder of CignalTypically, a startup forms with an idea that solves a problem. Then a core team of the company is assembled, a smattering of funds are pulled together to develop a minimally viable product, and so on. […]

Greg Winn and Jim Mayes, App It Out 2013 Winners, Discuss …

“The path to a commercialized web-based service is certainly not as linear as one might expect, especially today.” – Jim Mayes, co-founder of CignalTypically, a startup forms with an idea that solves a problem. Then a core team of the company is assembled, a smattering of funds are pulled together to develop a minimally viable product, and so on. […]

Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says | Technocrat – Roll Call

Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says
By Anne L. Kim Posted at 8 a.m. on May 14
A report from the Technology Policy Institute says there’s no evidence that big data harms privacy. “Privacy advocates, scholars and public officials have raised concern over a number of potential privacy threats from big data,” the think tank’s report says. “As of now there is […]

Predictive Analytics in Big Data | SpaceCurve.com

Predictive Analytics in Big Data
by SpaceCurve | May 9, 2014 | News
Prediction is the process of taking a measurement of reality and contextualizing it around a model of how the world works. Building models that attempt to approach the richness of the real world not only requires big data, it also requires working with data from diverse sources that capture […]

Traders worry big divergence in stock market is warning – CNBC.com

The small cap Russell 2000 was slightly higher, after finishing down 2 points at 1,105 Wednesday, below its 200-day moving average for a second day. Whether the Russell 2000 is a red flag for the broader market or not, it could continue to feel the heat as investors trim positions in momentum and small cap names. Stocks […]