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by Angela Guess DataStax, the company that commercialized the Cassandra database has added search functions to the NoSQL solution, Timothy Prickett Morgan reports for The Register. Morgan writes, “The new search functions come thanks to the welding of the open source Solr search engine, which like Cassandra is written in Java. Solr is a variant of...
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by Angela Guess Visa has gone above and beyond with their security precautions for the company’s latest data center, Jon Swartz reports for USA Today. Swartz writes, “Prisons are easier to enter than Visa’s top-secret Operations Center East, its biggest, newest and most advanced U.S. data center. The 8-acre facility looks like any other industrial park...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris recently reported for GigaOM, “The technological hurdles to embracing big data are well known at this point — McKinsey & Co. predicted a shortage of nearly 200,000 skilled data analysts by 2018 — but an even bigger obstacle to achieving analytics nirvana might be overcoming a strong anti-data corporate culture. It’s...
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by Angela Guess Dotomi is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Data in Chicago, IL. The post states, “At Dotomi, we are inventing a future of advertising that consumers love because it is personal and relevant. It is a future shaped by bringing together the country’s best technologists and innovative advertising and marketing...
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by Angela Guess Catholic Health Initiatives is looking for a Director of Data Governance in Englewood, CO. According to the post, this position “Ensures successful operation of a Data Governance (DG) capability (architectural, functional, operational and procedural), including establishing and leading the CHI Data Governance committee. Manages DG resources to provide on time, on...
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by Charles Roe The plethora of NoSQL products on the market today makes choosing the right tool for your organization a complicated matter at best. All of them have diverse functionality, different levels of usability and support, as well as distinct schema and indexing, failure cases, clustering preferences and a range of other options....
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Requirements for Managing Unstructured Data View more presentations from DATAVERSITY To view the video of this presentation, click HERE. About the Presentation Building on the lessons learned in “Getting Started with Unstructured Data” this webinar will help you understand how to define requirements for your unstructured data projects. There are several pain-points which...
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by Angela Guess Late last week IBM announced “new consulting services and software that take the power of predictive analytics to new levels of impact for the highest-priority issues of C-suite decision makers. The new analytic offerings address the emerging opportunities of big data to manage financial operations, decrease fraud and nurture next-generation customer relationships. Based...
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by Angela Guess Information Week’s Doug Henschen has published a new report, Research: 2012 IT Salary Survey, BI/Analytics. The full report is available for download here. Henschen introduces his findings thus: “Five years ago, the problem revealed in our annual InformationWeek Salary Survey was a shortage of business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing expertise....
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by Angela Guess Sarah Kessler of Mashable recently explained why Kaggle’s model of hosting contests for data scientists is working so well. She writes, “In 2006, Netflix released a set of anonymous user data and a challenge: Anyone who could improve its movie recommendation algorithms by at least 10% would receive a $10 million prize. It...
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