- AntMiner+ classification algorithm freely available - Feb 28, 2012.
AntMiner+ is a classification technique based on the principles of Ant Colony Optimization. Software is freely available at www.antminerplus.com.
- Infochimps Platform for Big Data - Feb 28, 2012.
The Infochimps Platform is end-to-end Big Data solution, complete with infrastructure and expertise. Scalably and affordably ingest data from your legacy databases, data feeds, data from the web, or our Data Marketplace.
- SkyTree Introduces Radically Faster Machine Learning Server - Feb 23, 2012.
The Skytree Server - a machine learning engine - is up to 10,000 faster on key algorithms like K-Means Clustering and SVM, and can connect to most databases. Both a free and a commercial version are available.
- SchoonerSQL: A super-set of MySQL for Big Data - Feb 21, 2012.
Legacy MySQL does not scale well on a single node, which forces granular sharding and results in low utilization of servers. SchoonerSQL made fundamental and extensive improvements to MySQL to exploit multi-core servers, flash memory, and high-performance networking.
- Wolfram Alpha Pro: Data Science for Everyone? - Feb 17, 2012.
Wolfram|Alpha Pro lets users take raw data (in many formats) and throw it into the system which will automatically do a whole bunch of analysis, and then return a well-organized report about the data.
- Weave open-source data visualization - Feb 15, 2012.
Weave is "ridiculously powerful", designed to let organization offer the public an easy-to-use platform for examining information - creating a "Wikipedia of data". Weave was developed by Georges G. Grinstein and his team at UML.
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2012 - Feb 14, 2012.
In 2011, business users continued to exert significant influence over BI decisions, often choosing data discovery products in addition to/as alternatives to traditional BI tools. Oracle, Microstrategy, Microsoft, and IBM are on the leading edge in the latest Magic Quadrant, followed by Information Builders, QlikTech, SAS, and SAP.
- First Look - Oracle Advanced Analytics - Feb 13, 2012.
New Oracle database option bundles Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining. There is no need for modelers to write SQL - they can just write R code and manipulate the data in the database.
- Start-ups help users price their personal data - Feb 13, 2012.
A number of start-ups allow people to take control and possibly profit from their personal data they leave on the Internet. A study showed that a unique user was worth $4 to Facebook and $24 to Google.
- Omniscope and R - Feb 12, 2012.
Steve Miller reviews Omniscope DataExplorer (data discovery & analysis) and DataManager (ETL tool), and especially likes its interoperability with R.
- Big Data Insights: Traackr migration from HBase to MongoDB - Feb 11, 2012.
Traackr engineer talks about evolution of their data storage needs from Apache HBase to MongoDB and what lessons they learned along the way.
- The Koblenz Network Collection - Feb 3, 2012.
KONECT is a project to collect large network datasets to support research in the area of network mining. KONECT has over 100 datasets from sources such as arXiv, Amazon, Digg, DBLP, Enron, Flickr, Twitter, and Youtuve. KONECT also provides code to generate network datasets from the Web.
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