Upcoming Gigaom event: the big data roundup — Tech News and …

Upcoming Gigaom event: the big data roundup — Tech News and …

In leading up to Structure Data, we’ve written some fabulous content about our speakers and the topic of big data. Here’s a roundup of the highlights.

(Structure Data kicks off this Wednesday in New York. Snag your ticket here.)

Structure Data themes and features

Banking startup LendUp shows why design is king as big data gets personal
How new tech can help lawyers rethink their jobs in the big data age
Qubole is offering Facebook’s Presto query engine as a service
The White House is going to study big data. Here are 5 things it should know
Google isn’t the only company working on AI. It’s just the richest
Meet the fighter pilot trying to crack the code of NFL data
Twitter’s data grants and the proprietary data conundrum
Why machine learning is still getting the human touch in retail
When it comes to our data, none of us are in control
Why the internet of things is big data’s latest killer app — if you do it right
The have, the have-nots and the exploited: how technology is helping the most helpless
If Twitter isn’t the most valuable data source around, it’s at least the most flexible

A look back and ahead for big data

Why 2013 was the year privacy changed at Structure Data
Analyzing our headlines to see what mattered in 2013
The future of data is about a lot more than pretty charts and sales reports
AncestryDAN is pushing past Hadoop as it pinpoints our pasts
Why video is the next big thing in big data
Yup. We’re looking at a business intelligence renaissance
5 things that will remake big data in the next 5 years

Structure Data featured speakers

Structure Data: just the right amount of Hadoop
5 things everyone should know about Hadoop
Cloudera says Impala is faster than Hive, which isn’t saying much
How much data can your car generate? Turns out, lots
MapR now supports YARN, puts HP Vertica on top of Hadoop (Rob Bearden, Hortonworks; Tom Reilly, Cloudera; and Paul Maritz, Pivotal)
The Structure Data Awards: honoring the best data startups of 2013 (Databrix, Paxata, Plaid and more)
3 lessons in big data from the Ford Motor Company (Michael Cavaretta, Ford Motor Company)
Leave the absolute zero to NASA. Your quantum computer will be an API (Vern Brownell, D-Wave Systems)
Deep learning might make your Netflix recommendations a lot better (IBM’s Watson division and AlchemyAPI)
Olympians weren’t the only athletes in Sochi (Jason Jacobs, RunKeeper)
Spotify acquires The Echo Nest and its musical smarts (Brian Whitman, The Echo Nest)

–Clare Ryan

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