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Wearables: The Latest Big Data Fashion Accessories
A lot of energy has been spent the last few days on the potential for so-called "wearable" computers to provide another large injection of information into our big data-crunching lives. Intel and other vendors unveiled numerous new wearables at CES this week that promise new possibilities for extracting personal information from people as they move about the physical world. The problem is: there's no "there" there, at least not yet. Read more…
Logi Analytics Delivers ‘Data Scientist in a Box’
If you're in the market for a data scientist this year, good luck. Demand for the rare professionals is quite high, so you'll have to shell out the big bucks to get one. Alternatively, you might consider investing in software that tackles some of the data manipulation tasks that a data scientist would typically do. One such offering is Logi Vision, the new "data scientist in a box" product unveiled today by Logi Analytics. Read more…
KPMG Nabs D&A Firm Link Analytics
The auditing giant KPMG today announced it has completed the acquisition of Link Analytics, an Atlanta, Georgia-based data & analytics (D&A) firm that developed and data analytics products and services. KPMG plans to combine Link Analytics' technology with its own analytics offering to help its clients make more money. Read more…
NCSA Project Aims to Create a DNS-Like Service for Data
Researchers at the University of Illinois and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are working to create a “DNS Server for data” that would automatically add structure to unstructured data as users come across it in the wild. The researchers recently received a $10.5-million National Science Foundation grant to develop the software as part of its “Brown Dog” project. Read more…
Intel Goes Graph with Hadoop Distro
Intel will be targeting big retail operations with a new graph database that it unveiled today as part of its Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop version 3 announcement. The graph engine will enable customers to make product or customer recommendations in real time, a la Netflix or Amazon, based on existing data. The chip giant also fleshed out its Hadoop distro with a 20x speedup in encryption functions, a data tokenization option, and a handful of new machine learning algorithms aimed at solving common problems. Read more…
RDBMs: The Hot New Technology of 2014?
Selecting a database is a bit like picking a religion. There are pros and cons to each, and the discussions run hot and heavy. With the rise of the big data phenomenon, adherents to the NoSQL and NewSQL database camps have dominated the discussion. But the relational camp has worked hard to catch up in terms of technology, and now threatens to swing the pendulum the other way. Read more…
Finding Big Data Treasure in the Cloud
Heading into 2014, one of the big data trends that will intensify is the transition toward end-to-end data analytic services hosted in the cloud. One of the promising big data cloud services is Treasure Data, a Silicon Valley company that offers an interesting mix of MapReduce, columnar databases, and intelligent agent technology that's aimed at helping clients get a quick return on their big data investments. Read more…
Birst Knows Best for Data Visualization
Regular business folk who have trouble operating today's high-powered data visualization tools are the targets for a new offering unveiled today by Birst. Called Birst Visualizer, the product employs a guided approach to data discovery that picks a visualization for the user based on basic search terms, and then automatically populates it with the pertinent business data. Read more…
Trifacta Gets $12M to Refine Raw Data
One of the most pressing problems affecting big data analysis projects is the difficulty in getting clean data to work with. Whether you’re planning to use MapReduce or a fancy machine learning algorithm to glean insights from your data, you’re not going to get very far into your project if the data is messy, unclean, or incomplete. Data transformation startup Trifecta just got $12 million to build a product that addresses this problem. Read more…
Data Scientists–Who Needs Them Anyway?
It's great being data scientist. You get a ridiculously large salary and, because the Harvard Business Review called it "sexiest job of the 21st century," automatic success on the dating scene. The problem is, like the Eastern Lowland Gorilla and the Black Spider Monkey, data scientists are an endangered species. Good luck finding one in the wild. Read more…
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