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by Glenn J. Thomas It’s been a couple months now since the entertainment industry finished up their awards season and as usual there were a slew of movies nominated that I have never seen or even heard of (sadly the ratio of “unknowns” to “knowns” increases proportionally with my age). This doesn’t bother me...
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by Angela Guess Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions recently announced that in honor of the their second anniversary, the company is “releasing its first-ever global leaderboard of data scientists. Since its founding in April 2010, the Kaggle community has grown to include more than 33,000 data scientists who compete to develop the...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris recently asked the question, should NoSQL startups be afraid of Amazon Web Service’s new NoSQL offering, DynamoDB? Harris writes, “Top executives at NoSQL startups are putting on a brave face in response to Amazon Web Services’ new DynamoDB offering. They roundly cite the new product (as well as Oracle’s October...
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by Angela Guess Data modeling competition company Kaggle has raised $11 million in Series A funding. According to the article, “Kaggle’s platforms allows for the posting of questions to some 17,000 participating PhD-level data scientists around the globe, with scientists then competing to come up with the best answers. Competitions can be public or...
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by Angela Guess Companies now have more choices than ever when it comes to databases. A new article reports, “About a decade ago, competition in the database market seemed to be winding down. Consolidation had taken out ASK, Tandem, and Informix as independent vendors, and Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, in that order, were ensconced...
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by Angela Guess Kaggle has launched a new competition called the Wikipedia Participation Challenge. According to the challenge website, “This competition challenges data-mining experts to build a predictive model that predicts the number of edits an editor will make in the five months after the end date of the training dataset. The dataset is...
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by Angela Guess Several articles – including one on our site – have emerged in the last few days regarding the findings of a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity.” Currently, the full report is available for download from the McKinsey website. No registration or...
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