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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