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USA: The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the ...

USA: The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the ... | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Data-driven predictions are responsible for a massive transformation of America's dairy cows. While other industries are just catching on to this whole “big data” thing, the animal sciences — and dairy breeding in particular ...
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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques | Big Data News | Scoop.it
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because sp...
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HDFS Paper: HARDFS - Hardening HDFS With Selective and Lightweight Versioning

A paper authored by a team from Universities of Wisconsin and Chicago:
“ We harden the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) against fail- silent (non fail-stop) behaviors that result from memory...
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HStreaming ready to show the world its real-time Hadoop

HStreaming ready to show the world its real-time Hadoop | Big Data News | Scoop.it
HStreaming has raised $1 million and is ready to take its message of real-time processing on Hadoop mainstream. In a world tired of batch processing only, that message should be well received.
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The Privacy Legal Implications of Big Data: A Primer - Information Law Group

The Privacy Legal Implications of Big Data: A Primer Information Law Group By now many lawyers and business managers have heard of the term “Big Data,” but many may not understand exactly what it refers to, and still more likely do not know how it...
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Data scientists: Do they even exist? • The Register

Data scientists: Do they even exist? • The Register | Big Data News | Scoop.it
RT @DataRush: A point raised in @mjasay @theregister post: enterprises should train employees to use #Hadoop http://t.co/qehpiqMi
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What Data Can't Tell You About Customers - blogs.hbr.org (blog)

What Data Can't Tell You About Customers - blogs.hbr.org (blog) | Big Data News | Scoop.it
What Data Can't Tell You About Customersblogs.hbr.org (blog)Increased computing power, ubiquitous consumer tracking, and ever-more-effective data mining techniques do offer significant advantages to business.
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Do you Hadoop? How Splunk Can Help | Splunk Blogs

Do you Hadoop? How Splunk Can Help | Splunk Blogs | Big Data News | Scoop.it
The Splunk App for HadoopOps, a Hadoop distribution agnostic app, allows you to monitor, alert, troubleshoot, remedy, search, and analyze Hadoop nodes, HDFS, and MapReduce. Splunk today is used to troubleshoot, ...
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How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry - Business Insider

How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry - Business Insider | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Business InsiderHow Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion IndustryBusiness InsiderThere's a new wave of startups trying to make it easier to use big data systems.
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Meet the combo powering Hadoop at Etsy, Airbnb and Climate Corp.

Meet the combo powering Hadoop at Etsy, Airbnb and Climate Corp. | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Etsy, Airbnb and the Climate Corporation are all using a combination of Cascading and Amazon Elastic MapReduce to make creating Hadoop jobs as simple as possible.
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Twitter Engineering: Visualizing Hadoop with HDFS-DU

Twitter Engineering: Visualizing Hadoop with HDFS-DU | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Visualizing Hadoop with HDFS-DU http://t.co/RdVnuOXx vía @twittereng...
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London Olympics Get Gold Medal for Big Data (Infographic) - Forbes

London Olympics Get Gold Medal for Big Data (Infographic) - Forbes | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Between the record-setting Michael Phelps swimming off into retirement, match-fixing in badminton, and Serena Williams’ post-match crip walk, the 2012 games have given us plenty of Olympic moments.
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How Google Compute Engine hopes to sidestep AWS failures | ZDNet

How Google Compute Engine hopes to sidestep AWS failures | ZDNet | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Summary: Google is calling on some of its most sensitive technologies in an attempt to give its cloud greater redundancy and reliability than Amazon Web Services's cloud, though it plans to keep them proprietary (How Google Compute Engine hopes to...
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On the Future of Hadoop: Hadoop 2.0, NextGen MapRecue (YARN), and more. . . | Cloud Zone

On the Future of Hadoop: Hadoop 2.0, NextGen MapRecue (YARN), and more. . . | Cloud Zone | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Episode #8 of the Podcast is a talk with Arun C. Murthy.
We talked about Hortonworks HDP1, the first release from Hortonworks, Apache Hadoop 2.0, NextGen... (RT @DZone: "On the Future of Hadoop: Hadoop 2.0, NextGen MapRecue (YARN), and more.
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USPS Leverages Big Data To Fight Fraud » Data Center Knowledge

USPS Leverages Big Data To Fight Fraud » Data Center Knowledge | Big Data News | Scoop.it
As it processes more than 528 million pieces of mail each day, the USPS has become an active participant in the big data revolution, and operates one of the most powerful non-classified supercomputing databases in the world.
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Demystifying Hadoop: Not All Problems Are Hadoop-able | SmartData Collective

Demystifying Hadoop: Not All Problems Are Hadoop-able | SmartData Collective | Big Data News | Scoop.it
People often ask me what Hadoop actually does.
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Building recommendation platforms with Hadoop - Strata

Building recommendation platforms with Hadoop - Strata | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Recommendations are making their way into more and more products. Using larger datasets are significantly improving the recommendations. Hadoop is being increasingly used for building out the recommendation platforms....
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Pig Offers Easy Alternative to MapReduce

Pig Offers Easy Alternative to MapReduce | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called 'Big Data' revolution.
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NoSQL databases and managing big data

An unprecedented amount of data is being created and is accessible.
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In Search Of Big Data Through Mobile Apps - MediaPost Communications

In Search Of Big Data Through Mobile Apps - MediaPost Communications | Big Data News | Scoop.it
In Search Of Big Data Through Mobile AppsMediaPost CommunicationsMaking the connection between search and search retargeting, followed by search retargeting in ad exchanges, mobile applications, and connected TVs will become the next phase for...
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Infographic: Big Data and how it is changing the experience of ...

Infographic: Big Data and how it is changing the experience of ... | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Big Data is being used as a buzzword just about everywhere you look, however, there's an opportunity here that I think some folks may miss if they're not.
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Mining the astronomical literature - O'Reilly Radar

Mining the astronomical literature - O'Reilly Radar | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Mining the astronomical literatureO'Reilly RadarIt also makes astronomy almost uniquely well placed for interesting data mining experiments, experiments that hint at what the rest of academia could do if they followed astronomy's lead.
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Hopper, with $22 million, and a look under the hood

Hopper, with $22 million, and a look under the hood | Big Data News | Scoop.it
Hopper got another $12 million in funding, and is seeking to provide relevant hotel and destination information at precisely the right time.
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QUT tackles big data with Splunk - ZDNet

QUT tackles big data with Splunk - ZDNet | Big Data News | Scoop.it
QUT tackles big data with SplunkZDNetIn 2010, the university decided to deploy Splunk, a data management software, to ease its big data woes, spending $100000 for the software.
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Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system • The Register

Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system • The Register | Big Data News | Scoop.it
via @regvulture Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system http://t.co/c0zFP0UH #latest #technews...
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DATA MINING: Accelerating Drug Discovery by Text Mining of Patents - AnalyticBridge

DATA MINING: Accelerating Drug Discovery by Text Mining of Patents - AnalyticBridge | Big Data News | Scoop.it
To signup go to - http://www.crowdanalytix.com/contests/data-mining-accelerating-drug-discovery-by-text-mining-of-patents/ The objective of this contest is to… (1st Prize $1,000 RT @analyticbridge: DATA MINING: Accelerating Drug Discovery by Text ...
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