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Data Mining / Analytic News Briefs, Apr 2011


 
  
  • New mobile analytics startup Sewichi - Apr 29, 2011.
    the start-up will measure, track and analyze mobile data, which is richer than PC data.
  • Supreme Court Case on Rx Data Mining Requires Nuanced Understanding of Privacy - Apr 26, 2011.
    U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that may have significant implications for privacy and data mining of patient records. The case challenges Vermont statute that prohibits the use of drug prescribing information for the purpose of marketing drugs to physicians and other prescribers, without the consent of the prescriber.
  • Business Intelligence vs. Big Data - Apr 19, 2011.
    how simple drag-and-drop operations of a business user within a desktop tool turn into complex database operations that would choke any relational database (joining, grouping, aggregating), yet are handled by a columnar database without any difficulty.
  • Jive buys Proximal Labs for analytics - Apr 14, 2011.
    Proximal Labs will help accelerate Jive efforts to use the power of 'big data' to unlock the value of the social graph in the enterprise.
  • NM Incite and Clarabridge Alliance Combines Social Media, Text Analytics - Apr 13, 2011.
    NM Incite Social Media Data Will Now Flow Seamlessly into Clarabridge's Sentiment and Text Analytics Platform To Offer Companies Actionable Insights from Voice of the Consumer Data
  • 2008 business information: 9.57 zettabytes - Apr 12, 2011.
    the annual business-related information processed in 2008 was equivalent to a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times a year.
  • HDC Patent for Data mining platform for knowledge discovery from heterogeneous data types - Apr 10, 2011.
    A data mining platform for generating an output comprising knowledge discovered from analysis of a plurality of data sets comprising heterogeneous data types or data from heterogeneous data sources, wherein the data points within the data sets comprise a plurality of descriptive features of varied relevance to knowledge discovery, the platform comprising: a computer system programmed to implement a plurality of modules stored within a system memory, each module adapted for processing one data type of the plurality of heterogeneous data types
  • Salford Systems Helps Forecast Alaska's Ecosystem in the 22nd Century - Apr 8, 2011.
    a 'climate envelope' approach was used to develop predictive models for distribution of the different modeling subjects at three future time-steps in the next century: 2030-2039, 2060- 2069, 2090-2099.
  • SAS joins with EMC and Teradata on fast analytics - Apr 8, 2011.
    New approach supports high-performance modeling and scoring against complete data sets, promising greater accuracy in predictive risk-analysis, fraud-detection and optimization scenarios.
  • Patent: Patient data mining for automated compliance - Apr 5, 2011.
    A group of Siemens engineers received patent for automatically generating performance measurement information.
  • SAS® OnDemand for Academics - Apr 5, 2011.
    Higher ed researchers will soon be able to access SAS Enterprise Miner and Forecast Server for free through SAS OnDemand for Academic, joining professors and students who were able to use SAS in coursework for free for over a year.
  • Jingwei Q4 and Record Full Year 2010 Results - Apr 4, 2011.
    Jingwei, a leading provider in China of data mining, interactive marketing and software services, announced its consolidated financial results for Q4 and full year ended Dec 31, 2010.
  • Online Data Pioneer Dr. Usama Fayyad Joins Martini Media Board of Directors - Apr 3, 2011.
    Data analytics scientist, serial entrepreneur, investor, and architect of Yahoo! Big Data and targeting systems, Fayyad will help Martini Media develop a next-generation targeting technology to deliver effective branded response for advertisers.
  • IBM adds Cloud-Based Social Media Analytics - Apr 1, 2011.
    IBM Coremetrics Social helps companies analyze the business impact of their social marketing initiatives, while IBM Unica Pivotal Veracity Email Optimization Suite analyzes email links that are shared across social network platforms

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