“The Tale of Two Americas” continues to unfold side by side — the better relying on one, investable trend that you can act on today (more on that in a moment).One America is defined by out-of-control debt, wealth consumption, and increasing government control. It’s a doom-and-gloom scenario you’ve likely tried to put out of sight and out of mind, and […]
With a background in sociology, Tom Davenport, a Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College and author of 19 books on management practices and analytics, thinks about technology in terms of what it means for humans. At the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vertica Big Data Conference this week, he joined theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante and talked about […]
You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can’t have both. That’s the conclusion that several colleagues and I reach in an article now online at Queue and forthcoming in Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. The short version: many people have called for making science more open and transparent by sharing data and posting data openly. […]
Stock Trading Alert: Indexes Extend Their Move Up – New Trend Or Still Just A Rebound?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, Aug 14, 2014SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on August 14, 2014, 6:33 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 1,970 and a profit target at 1,850, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our […]
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 […]
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There’s one line of thinking that goes that the market has rallied only because of the Fed. And that when the eventual Fed tightening comes into view, markets will tumble.
The other view is that the market represents fundamental economic and market improvement.In his latest Weekly Kickstart note, Goldman’s David Kostin relays some observations from […]
Red Hat last month released the latest version of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, their object and block storage product based on the upstream open source Ceph project. It’s notable not only as the first release since Red Hat acquired the two-year-old startup, Inktank, in April, but also for two key features that help open up a new market for Ceph.While Ceph […]
Nothing boosts the prospects of page hits on a blog – or funding of a grant proposal – like the phrase “big data.” Why are we enamored with “big data”? It’s not the magic bullet of management or policy: It’s made money for a few companies, but has backfired bigtime in the arenas of national security (NSA surveillance scandals) and […]
Big data is already making a big impact all over the world. Large corporations, world organizations, and governments have hopped aboard the big data bandwagon, hoping to utilize new sources of data to improve operations and increase productivity among many other reasons.It’s easy to see from the latest technology news how such massive organizations can benefit from big data considering […]
The Big Data market is expected to grow to $28.5 billion by the end of 2014 and to top $50 billion by 2017, according to a recent Wikibon report. With the growing market comes millions of new Big Data and Analytics jobs that are being created across the globe. But the amount of new jobs far outweigh the number of […]
