Companies often need to decide between innovation and open standards when they put their data into the cloud. So how can we improve data portability? Read more »
While using machine learning over large data sets to serve up ads inside social networks isn’t new, there’s an era emerging where social network data can be used to help people solve important problems. Read more »
Big data and the horsepower needed to generate, store and manage it is all great. Now we need to make sure our data is reproducible, says AWS principle data scientist. Read more »
When it comes to using big data, there are still bottlenecks. Many of these are around the tools that people use to try to make sense of massive amounts of information. Read more »
Representatives at IBM and the New York Stock Exchange laid out a schematic for doing big data analytics and showed how it can work in practice. Read more »
Harvard recently threw a tough genomics problem to TopCoder’s crowdsourced community and discovered the contest not only revealed a much broader field of investigation but provided a high level of motivation to get the problem solved. Read more »
Just like any company, the Central Intelligence Agency is trying to filter the massive amounts of data that are being produced by both people and machines, and find the signal in a growing volume of digital noise. Read more »
Speaking at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference on Wednesday, Aetna’s head of innovation, Michael Palmer, talked about the company’s efforts to use patient data to provide better care. Read more »
What does it take to move companies toward a data-driven future? EMC chief strategist and Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz spoke at Strucuture:Data in New York on how to move toward the future through human leadership and strategy. Read more »
Cascading proprietor Concurrent has secured $4 million in venture capital in order to advance its efforts toward easing the development of big data applications. Read more »
There’s already a ton of data flying around, but the amount just scratches the surface of the data deluge that will come with the Internet of Things. Better get ready, says Snaplogic CEO Gaurav Dhillon. Read more »
In his talk at Structure: Data, Quid’s Sean Gourley talked about the meaningful differences between “data science” and “data intelligence.” While one is concerned with correlations, the other is concerned about solving problems. Read more »
Even though a perception persists that machines can increasingly solve complex problems and process large amounts of data on their own, machine learning experts say humans still play a key role. Read more »
Speaking at Structure:Data in New York, Juniper Networks product management lead Jennifer Lin claimed application developers working with big data could find great value in the software-defined network. Read more »
Are algorithms actually making society dumber? Yes, says at least one big data expert. We can’t throw computers at our problems until we better define those problems though human input. Read more »
Lending firms like Zest and Kabbage are doing a better job than jobs at deciding if a person or small business should receive credit. Their advantage is thousands of data signals that banks don’t even consider. Read more »
When building successful apps, both designers and engineers have to remember that they are on the same team, said Kleiner Perkins’ Michael Abbott at Structure: Data 2013 Wednesday. Read more »
As Punchfork gets ready to shut down its API post Pinterest acquisition, Yummly hopes to step into its shoes, proving recipe content to food sites and apps. Yummly’s semantic search technology, however, has a lot to offer. Read more »
You can find all of our coverage of Structure:Data 2013 here, along with links to more info on the conference and a livestream of the action. Read more »
Database startup Drawn to Scale has extended its Spire distributed data platform from SQL to MongoDB. That means users can get high performance from the latter even across hundreds of terabytes. Read more »
Netbreeze promises to bring multi-lingual access and analysis to Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube streams via Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Read more »
Grafetee, which makes it extremely easy to collect and display location-based data, is now offering more customizable, API-driven services to paying users, from bloggers to local authorities. Read more »
10gen is introducing an enterprise edition of MongoDB, making the NoSQL database more appealing to larger-scale users. The company shares the space with plenty of competitors, and more features could be coming soon. Read more »
Former VMware CEO and current Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz shares his thoughts on how the future of enterprise IT must mirror the practices of consumer web companies. Read more »
Using machine language smarts to screen for a much wider array of fraudulent online behavior, startup Sift Science now has $5.5 million to broaden its beta test beyond a few select companies. Read more »
Hadoop vendor is racking up customers and on Monday it announced a $30 million venture-capital investment that brings its total funding to $59 million since launching in 2011. Read more »
The British company behind the widely-used SCST target software stack is now part of Fusion-io’s ION Data Accelerator team. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Read more »
LucidWorks’ Grant Ingersoll argues that it’s time to stop using language to diminish the importance of text, one of the defining computational challenges of our time. Read more »
Many of us yell at the TV while watching our favorite sports teams. Many of us also want to get better at working with data. Statwing thinks it can help with both. Read more »
Enterprises have already started to change the way they buy IT but we’re still in the midst of a massive multi-year transformation. And that should worry vendors like EMC, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and VMware. Read more »
Tictrac, a startup that helps people aggregate data from various tracking devices, apps and other non-health tools, this week opened to the public. Read more »
For a discussion of big data’s potential and challenges join GigaOM Research and our sponsor IBM for a free analyst webinar on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 10 a.m. PT. Read more »
A lot of die-hard RSS users are upset that Google has decided to kill off its Google Reader service, but for me Twitter and other platforms based on social news are far superior to any RSS reader and have been for some time. Read more »
Key stakeholders across your organization need a big data technology that can give them answers as fast as they think of questions. Take advantage of every step in the big data life cycle. Learn how you can use Splunk to harness your machine-generated big data. Read more »
Google now allows joins within its BigQuery analytics service, as well as support for timestamped data and massive aggregations. Valuable stuff if you use BigQuery. Read more »
A group of data protection officials from across Europe has published its opinion on smartphone apps. It makes for ugly reading, as the fragmentation of the mobile ecosystem renders compliance near-impossible. Read more »
Facebook is perfecting the algorithms that deliver results in its Graph Search tool, and more improvements are coming. It would be wise to watch the social networking giant tweak such a large database search. Read more »
Netflix wants to hear about your great cloud computing ideas and is willing to pay for the privilege. Read more »
Devices like Google Glass are going to change the way that we consume the news and other information — how will media companies have to change the way they think about the news and how it is constructed? Read more at paidContent »
The physics researchers at CERN are now much more confident that they have found the elusive particle, although questions remain that will require sifting through more data. Read more »
