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by Angela Guess Tom Groenfeldt of Forbes recently discussed how two companies are utilizing advanced data modeling and Big Data to analyze tropical storm data in real time. He writes, “Insurance and reinsurance firms will have new tools for predictive modeling of events like tropical storms in January when Wall Street Network (WSN) launches a cloud-based...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM recently discussed the Big Data surrounding political ad campaigns. He writes, “If you think you can avoid the ceaseless barrage of political ads by merely avoiding the television at all costs and keeping your telephone silenced, think again. Politicians and their campaign managers know you too well,...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, “Some of the U.S. government’s most research-intensive agencies want your help to come up with better ways to analyze their expansive data sets. NASA, along with the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, launched a competition on TopCoder called the Big Data Challenge series. Essentially, it’s a competition to crowdsource...
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by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “Last week I sat down with Mark V. Hurd, Oracle’s co-president, for a talk about Oracle’s strategy. Most of his conversation had to do with the problems facing big companies as they adapt to a world of mobile devices, cloud computing and huge...
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by Angela Guess Gil Elbaz of TechCrunch recently discussed the evolving concept of data markets. He writes, “The term data market brings to mind a traditional structure in which vendors sell data for money. Indeed, this form of market is on the rise with companies large and small jumping in. Think of Azure Data...
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by Angela Guess Tony Kontzer of Investors.com recently discussed how Atigeo is using Big Data to help inform voters this election season. He writes, “One Sunday morning in April, Christopher Burgess and his wife, Kathy, were sitting at their dining room table, engaged in the time-honored ritual popular with many U.S. couples: namely, screaming...
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by Angela Guess Danielle Gould of Forbes recently discussed how Food Genius is using Big Data. She writes, “Food Genius entered the crowded market of dish recommendation apps last year, using big data to revolutionize the way people discover restaurants and dishes. At the time, the startup’s focus was on getting (scraping) as much menu-level data...
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by Angela Guess Jolie O’Dell of VentureBeat reports that Gnip has launched Historical PowerTrack for Twitter, a product “which will give developers the ability to search, find, analyze, and compare all the tweets ever written, even ones written before the developer in question started scraping Twitter. It’s the same level of access the Library of...
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by Angela Guess Roibín Ó hÉochaidh of the UC Berkeley News Center recently discussed the Institutional Data Management and Governance initiative to “ transform Berkeley’s smorgasbord of fragmented data systems into an all-purpose data warehouse where analysts and decision-makers, staff and students can easily access integrated, reliable information presented in a customizable, user-friendly framework. ‘When...
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by Angela Guess Ryan Bradley of Fortune recently reported on Rick Smolan’s new book, The Human Face of Big Data. Bradley writes, “A photographer for Time, Life, and National Geographic, Rick Smolan says he relishes taking on the impossible. Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so...
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