“Understanding more about the use of BigData in this fast paced world”
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Stewart Townsend
How Brands Can Use 'Big Data' to Improve Their Marketing Doug Cutting, co-founder of the Apache Hadoop project and creator of Nutch and Lucene Nick Halstead - Founder/CTO DataSift Hilary Mason -- Bit.ly Chief Scientist Andy Kirk -- Visualising Data Edd Dumbill -- Program Chair Strata Conference -- Moderator... 
Guest post written by Albert "Rocky" Pimentel Albert Pimentel is chief sales and marketing officer at Seagate. 
Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic: “Data-driven predictions are responsible for a massive transformation of America’s dairy cows. While other industries are just catching on to this whole... 
As with gold or oil, data has no intrinsic value, writes Webtrends CEO Alex Yoder. Big science, which bridges the gap between knowledge and insight, is where the real value is. Read this blog post by Alex Yoder on Business Tech. 
A new community space aiming to stimulate big data talent and startups in the ... 
#BigData - Twitter Influencers We are aimed at becoming an authority on business innovation and want to help you identify the top influencers so you can follow (RT @bobgourley: I'm a student of Big Data, but surprised to be on this list: Top 50... 
James Patterson is the official winner of the Data Science Hackathon organised by Data Science London in conjunction with Big Data Week. Big data week in pictures, 50 meetups and 1000+ attendees in the UK alone. 
VMware has acquired Cetas, a startup that provides analytics atop the Hadoop platform. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, but Cetas is an 18-month-old company with tens of paying customers that didn't need to rush into an acquisition. 
Teradata Universe: prime time for Big Data Analytics |
If you love Music and Data this is your day! In a recent interview for AllThingsD, Mike Rhodin, the senior vice president of IBM’s Software Solutions Group gave a very realistic description of what the future of data looks like: 
Articles and case studies written about “big data” analytics programs proclaim the successes of organizations, typically with a focus on the technologies used to build the systems. 
How CIOs can build the foundation for a data science culture... 
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) It's typical in an election year to see an administration spend money on new initiatives. A new cost cutting initiative unveiled back in March has generally gone un-noticed by the main stream technology media. 
As the adoption of cloud applications increases, the work of integrating all those services becomes a growing market. 
Go from tracking crime to predicting it: 11% reduction by applying a seismologists’ data model:
"Past crimes can be predictive of future crimes because they indicate that an environment is target-rich, convenient to access for a criminal, vulnerable, or simply seems like a good place to strike due to a pattern of crime and poor control." Kalev H.Leetaru is Assistant Director for Text and Digital Media Analytics at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois and Center Affiliate of the National Center for... 
Big Data: an introduction in 10 tweets 
Buy-side IT professionals must adapt – or face paying big money to vendors to mine big data, says Ovum... 
IBM is acquiring Squirrel Hill-based Vivisimo in a move to bolster the New York ... |
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