Data Science and Big Data

From print media to the internet, scientists have progressed from using magazines, newspapers and tradeshows to the internet, social media, and virtual events.

US companies are scrambling to fill their current Big Data roles and it’s already getting harder to find these specialists.

Claudia Perlich keynotes on M6D’s approach to Big Data, using data granularity to build predictive models used for user targeting, bid optimization and fraud detection.

Instead of focusing upon the concept of big data, organisations should concentrate on the intelligence data can offer

One year and seven months after beginning construction, Facebook has brought its first datacenter on foreign soil online. That soil is in Lulea, town of 75,000 people on northern Sweden’s east coast, just miles south of the boundary separating the Arctic Circle from the somewhat-less-frigid land below it.

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth 1,000 words. After seeing some of the visualization projects that our data science team was working on in anticipation of last week’s announcements regarding managed data sources and our Tableau partnership, I can confirm that the old adage holds true.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are dipping into the Google cash register for a little pocket money.

Data scientist might be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s hardly an easy gig to land. Here is some advice from practitioners at Netflix, Orbitz and Hortonworks on how get hired and even do the hiring.

Speed traders once made billions staging market attacks. Speed, it turns out, kills

Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000.

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DataSift is bringing the Twitter firehose, Google+ and other social streams to Tableau Software in a new partnership. The deal could help more people gain insight into connections between business and social media.

Increased organisational data and bandwidth means data science and resourcing for the right talent, will be paramount to digital success.

I've been noticing unlikely areas of mathematics pop-up in data analysis. While signal processing is a natural fit, topology, differential and algebraic geometry aren't exactly areas you associate with...

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

Editor's note: Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

Why do some companies, products and services get more word of mouth than others?

Social data platform DataSift has partnered up with Tableau Software, a big data analytics and visualization company. The move is designed to allow companies to combine both their social ...

Jobs centered on data have been falling into Ana Bertran Ortiz’s lap since she finished her electrical engineering Ph.D. in 2007.

A startup called Spinnakr is launching to simplify the process of monitoring traffic, brainstorming actions to take and tweaking websites to give visitors what they’re looking for.

During its Transform 2013 events in Paris and London, infrastructure software company TIBCO Software launched Iris, a new troubleshooting and forensic application, and updated its FTL low-latency messaging platform.

Setting up Big Data analytics in a company is no easy job. The CFO has to start small, break down data silos, get the right people on board and, above

The era of "big data" is dawning, with the convergence of electronic medical records (EMR) systems, mobile health care monitors, genetic sequencing and predictive analytics. And with it, hopes are growing that health researchers are poised to use the vast torrents of precise patient data about disease prevalence, quality of care and treatment outcomes to deliver bold new insights that could transform health delivery.

One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.

Joe Gebbia tells LeWeb London conference that regulatory resistance to peer-to-peer lodging is like when 'cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States'. By Stuart Dredge