- The Search For Analysts To Make Sense Of 'Big Data' - Nov 30, 2011.
DJ Patil is on a perpetual manhunt, looking for a rare breed: someone with a brain for math, finesse with computers, the eyes of an artist and more.
- Following Digital Breadcrumbs To 'Big Data' Gold - Nov 29, 2011.
Data analytics itself is not new, but in the past 2-3 years, computing, storage and bandwidth capacity have become so cheap that it has altered the scale of what's possible. This story looks at how Big data is used for fraud detection, job search, best airfare prediction and more.
- IBM Social Media Analysis Points to Lower Women's Heels - Nov 25, 2011.
Usually women's heels stay high during a downturn; perhaps not this time. Analysis of social media in 2008-11 showed that discussions of increasing heel height peaked towards the end of 2009, and declined after that.
- Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees (on Facebook) - Nov 22, 2011.
Facebook and italian researchers reported that the average num. of friends separating any two people in the world was not six but 4.74.
- KDnuggets 11:n28, Analytics/Data Mining Overview; New Poll: what you analyze? Analytics education - Nov 22, 2011.
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- On Big Data: Interview with VP of Engineering at Vertica - Nov 21, 2011.
Roberto Zicari talks with Shilpa Lawande, VP of Engineering at Vertica, about Analytics Platform for Big Data. In a recent big data test (counting social network triangles) Vertica was 20-40 times faster than Pig and Hadoop.
- Boston Analytics Meetup Presentation - Nov 18, 2011.
talks on Cloudera, Wikipedia Tag Clouds, Big Data and Hadoop, and MongoDB
- Analytics Held Up By People More Than Tech - Nov 15, 2011.
MIT Sloan and IBM survey points to organizational differences as main factor in competitive advantage with data
- Computational Journalism: a Call to Database Researchers - Nov 14, 2011.
computational journalism is a rich field worthy of attention from the database (and analytics) community, from both intellectual and social perspectives.
- KDnuggets 11:n27, Top Algorithms for Data Mining, algo. industry affinity; Kaggle VC - Nov 9, 2011.
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- On data mining reputation and the ethics of data collection - Nov 4, 2011.
Solon Barocas, a PhD student at NYU, a speaker at Strata conference, discussed the perceptions of data mining and how companies can address data mining's reputation.
- On Big Data: Interview with Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO and VP of Amazon.com - Nov 2, 2011.
In the new world of data analysis your questions are going to evolve and change over time and as such you need to be able to collect, store and analyze data without being constrained by resources.
- More Frequently-Asked Questions (and Answers) about Data Mining - Nov 2, 2011.
Tim Graettinger answers: How much data do I need for data mining? Why doesn't my predictive model perform as well on new data as it does on the training data? and more.
- KDnuggets 11:n26, Big data mining and privacy; New Jobs, Big Data tools; Datafiniti - Nov 2, 2011.
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