Tag: NLP
How Big Data Is Changing How Businesses Use The News
In the old days, a folded copy of The Wall Street Journal was the sign of a well-informed executive. My, how times have changed. While the WSJ is still a good read, big data technology is super-charging how businesses us Read more…
Why Twitter Is the Low-Hanging Fruit of Social Analytics
Nobody is mistaking the Twitter fire hose for a crystal ball. But big companies are increasingly turning to Twitter and other social media outlets for a range analytic tasks, from gauging customer sentiment about bendy s Read more…
Here’s Another Option for Hadoop Enterprise Search
The software stacks of many Hadoop distributions feature Apache Lucene and Solr as the enterprise search component. But the folks at the French firm Sinequa say Hadoop customers will get more actual work done--and quickl Read more…
A Prediction Machine Powered by Big Social Data
What if you had a machine that could predict what people will be talking about on the Internet over the next three days. How would you use that information? The folks at Blab say they have created such a machine, and the way its customers are using it might surprise you. Read more…
DataRPM Gets $5M to Liberate Data from Warehouses
What if you could ask your Hadoop cluster questions about your data in a natural, conversational style, and get the results served to you in a visual interface? That is essentially what the data analytics startup DataRPM has created, and today, the company announced $5.1 million in Series A venture funding to take that product to market. Read more…
How PayPal Makes Merchants Smarter through Data Mining
Since PayPal was founded 16 years ago, it's become the go-to place for payment transaction processing on the Internet, particularly among smaller merchants with limited resources. A couple of years ago, PayPal launched a new Hadoop-based data mining program with the goal of helping its parent company, eBay, but also with aims toward enabling smaller merchants to connect more successfully with their customers. Read more…
DARPA Seeks to Unlock Big Data Mechanisms
The world is awash in data, and yet the ability to connect it all in meaningful ways seems to be drifting further out of reach. Enter the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which last month announced a new project aimed at building new models that drive insight into the inner workings of complicated systems, such as ecosystems, brains, and economic and social systems. Read more…
Enigma.io Claims to Demystify Data; Receives Round
Enigma.io says that they have sanitized and curated over 100,000 streams of publicly available data and have reportedly been granted $1.1 million dollars in venture equity seed money to take their big data project to the next level. Read more…
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