The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science
Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential election results from Nate Silver and others. “A…
Technologies and Analyses in CBS’ Person of Interest
Person of Interest is a broadcast television show on CBS where a “machine” predicts a person most likely to die…
Analyzing Logs and More – A Big Data Architecture
Big data and log files Splunk's great success in providing the tools for a sysadmin to delve into previously inaccessible…
The Real Value of Big Data
HADOOP FOR BIG DATA HADOOP FOR BIG DATAAround 80% of data from “big data” is unstructured. With this massive quantity…
Big Data Trees with Hadoop HDFS
Last month's release of Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 added the capability to fit decision and regresson trees on large data…
The Big Data in Teradata
At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its expanding role as a provider distributed information architecture…
Mike Olson‘s Keynote at the 2012 Hadoop World/Strata Conference in NYC.
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” said Carl Sagan. This inspiring quote is a tremendous mantra for those in the…
Data Analytics Evolution at LinkedIn – Key Takeaways
At Teradata Partners Conference 2012 held this week near Washington D.C., Simon Zhang’s talk on “Data Sciences and Analytics Evolution @LinkedIn,”…
The Hastings Effect: Netflix Big Data Approach Is Transforming Education
THE HASTINGS EFFECTby Dave FeinleibThought Leader (ART+DATA) Institute THE HASTINGS EFFECTby Dave FeinleibThought Leader (ART+DATA) InstituteNetflix is known for its…
The Driving Force Behind Big Data: Data Connectivity
In most organizations, stakeholders maintain the perspective that Big Data offers tremendous benefits to the enterprise, especially when it comes…