You might not think of a Brad Pitt movie and human resources as fitting together, but stay with me… Josh Bersin of Bersin and Associates makes the case that human resources professionals need to exploit data science to support their businesses better. Just as analyzing the statistics of baseball helped Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s beat
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On the Wall Street Journal website today, Ben Rooney posts an interview with Hortonworks CEO Eric Baldeschwieler, co-creator of Hadoop. For all those in the big data space, the Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing, and Hortonworks is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of Hadoop. In Rooney’s interview, Baldeschwieler
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Shvetank Shah is executive director of the Corporate Executive Board, and recently wrote an article for InformationWeek about the need for scrutiny when launching into big data initiatives. Here’s the first paragraph from Shah’s post, which sums things up pretty well: Even as companies invest eight- and nine-figure sums to analyze the information streaming in from
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David Smith is an author, blogger and R evangelist for Revolution Analytics, where he serves as VP of Marketing, and he blogs daily at blog.revolutionanalytics.com. This weekend, he posted an article about the use of data science in the winemaking business (yes, data science is getting to be everywhere!…) The article is about Palmaz Vineyards,
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Here’s a neat little interview conducted by Internet Evolution’s Todd Watson of Michael Lewis and Billy Beane. Watson was attending the Information OnDemand event this past month, where one of the key themes of the event was the idea of putting business analytics into practice to help improve business outcomes. Watson felt that Beane did a
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Looking ahead, there are a number of interesting upcoming conferences within the “big data” and “data science” fields, so I thought I’d list a few in this post. First, Strata is probably one of the biggest and fastest growing conferences within the field, and they’ll be holding their next conference in Santa Clara, CA, starting
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This Friday, I thought I’d highlight one of my favorite and nerdiest documentaries of the technology industry. Given the presence of the late Steve Jobs in the media lately – his loss to cancer, the new Walter Issaccon biography, and Apple’s re-creation of personal computing – I thought it would be nice to reflect upon
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On the website Enterprise Irregulars, Evangelos Simoudis wrote a post on his talk at the recent Information On Demand conference in Las Vegas. Simoudis mentions that today what is generally referred to by “big data” means data that is large in size, semi-structured or unstructured in form, and real-time or near real-time in the way it
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The Wall Street Journal has a profile of 1010data, as part of their ongoing series of successful companies in the big data space. According to the WSJ profile, the New York-based company’s customers pay a subscription and hand their data over to the company, which gives it back to them in a format that’s nearly
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It’s been common practice within the graphic arts world to have competitions for logo design – companies put out a bid for a logo, and get multiple bids with examples in order to win the work. It appears that this model is reaching the analytics development world… It was announced today by VentureBeat that Kaggle
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