Tag: bigdata
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Big Data Delivery
I felt the article, The 7 steps in Big Data delivery, was worth sharing. Here was my favorite quote from the article: Most staff members charged with researching and acquiring Big Data solutions focus on the Collect and Store steps at the expense of the others. Big Data and Data Science are more than just…
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Big Data Revolution (An Infographic)
This infographic by Deep Blue Analytics does a nice job of explaining why there is so much excitement around bigdata. The world is generating a lot of data There are not enough people to analyze that data Browse more Technology infographics. Big Data Revolution
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Big Data and Medicine: Who is working on it?
I previously posted about Data Science and Doctor Visits. What I would like to know. Who is working on data science problems for medicine? I would love to hear some answers to this. They can be individual researchers, startups, or established companies. If I get some responses, I will be sure to post a list…
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BigData and the GraphDB
https://speakerdeck.com/u/okram/p/titan-the-rise-of-big-graph-data This presentation introduces Titan, which is a new graph database for bigdata. It integrates with a backend of either Cassandra or Hbase. Titan is created by Aurelius.
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Data Article From 2010
Talk of bigdata is not new, but the term bigdata might be new. Here is a nice article from 2010 about the benefits and risks of massive amounts of data. It is a nice read about bigdata from a 2010 perspective. You will notice it lacks some of the hot buzzwords of today.
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Why The Bigdata?
I think this infographic sums it up fairly well. It is amazing all that happens on the internet in 60 seconds, Here are just a couple. 98,000 tweets 695,000 Facebook status updates 13,000 hours of music streamed on Pandora See the infographic for more examples. It is no wonder the world is having bigdata problems.…
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Bitmarks: Bitly’s Data Science One URL At A Time
Earlier this week, Bitly launched a new bookmarking service. They call links/URLs bitmarks instead of bookmarks. It has a nice Chrome Extension and Bitmarklet. So far, I very much like the service. So, Why Should You Care? Well, at its core, Bitly is a data science company. This is just another way for Bitly to…
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An Infographic for Taming Big Data
The gorilla may be a bit too much, but the rest of the infographic contains valuable information. What do companies do with bigdata? Also, spending on bigdata is set to increase rapidly in the next few years. Via: Wikibon Big Data
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Healthcare, BigData, and Startups
Healthcare is starting to see the value of data science. Here are 2 data science events aimed at generating value for healthcare. Call for Startups – HealthStartup III on Big Data This is an event for connecting healthcare, startups and investors in Europe. Health 2.0’s Boston Big-Data Code-a-thon This event starts today. It is a…
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Data Visualization Links
I recently ran across the following articles about data visualization. iPad for Visualizations – Microstrategy has created an iPad app thats can be used for the analysis of bigdata. Big Picture of BigData – How visualization can be applied to the 3 Vs of bigdata (Volume, Velocity, Variety) The Explanatory Power of Data Points –…
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Large Scale Text Processing with MapReduce: A Free Textbook
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce is a Free online (PDF) textbook about text processing on large amounts of data. The 1st edition has been available for a couple of years, and a 2nd edition is in the works. Here is quick overview of some of the topics. Mapreduce Graph Algorithms Text Processing Happy Reading (and…
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Data Science For Trucking? Who Knew?
How To Manage One Million Vehicles With Big Data – Forbes. The above link goes to a great story about using data science. What makes the story great is the company. It is not a science company or a tech startup. It is a truck management company. Data science is truly reaching all industries.