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Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante from Wikibon on the Big Data Market (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef_yQvtC9aA?list=PLenh213llmcYiyiYRzkku1MgwvrL_TIGN] From Silicon Angle: Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s third annual Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast, which author Jeff Kelly stopped by to discuss with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. … Continue reading
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Jake Flomenberg from Accel Partners on the Big Data Market (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOw-2IWHZE] From VentureBeat: In a new video, Jake Flomenberg of Accel Partners lays out his view of the big data market and the investing opportunities he’s excited about. He’s talking with another data expert: Stefan Groschupf, the chief executive of well-funded … Continue reading
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Doing Data Science at Manheim
As ones and zeros eat the world, data is the new product and data science is the new process of innovation. The International Institute for Analytics predicts that in 2014 companies in a variety of industries will increasingly use analytics … Continue reading
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Satya Nadella, New Microsoft CEO, on the Digitization of Everything (Video)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE?list=PL6RKqpezpCYp5-XtFje-AeT4XHOs0X4ZK] Satya Nadella on the Microsoft Blog: On Tuesday at LeWeb’13 in Paris, I joined Om Malik on stage to talk with thousands of entrepreneurs, startups and large companies about technology and where we’re headed as an industry. The … Continue reading
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Design Thinking for Dummies (Data Scientists)
[slideshare id=30767715&style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] Strata preview 2014: Design thinking for dummies (data scientists) from Dean Malmgren Data scientists often face ambiguous challenges and, as a group, should use and make use … Continue reading
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Why Ones and Zeros Are Eating the World
30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984, was a huge leap … Continue reading
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Google Music Timeline (Data Visualization)
Google Research Labs The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe … Continue reading
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Tim O’Reilly on Open Data
[brightcove vid=3058495035001&exp3=1971702156001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=1971571337001&pk=AQ~~,AAABywrPJyk~,MP34hwWOTrPs3yLiJKkINM_zsiFWIvnW&lbu=http://www.mckinsey.com/videos/video?vid=3058495035001%26plyrid=2399849255001%26Height=270%26Width=480&w=300&h=225] Source: McKinsey “We should define a little bit what we mean by “open,” because there’s open as in it’s open source. Anybody can take it and reuse it in whatever way they want. And I’m not sure that’s … Continue reading
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The 4 Flavors of The Internet of Things
Two years ago, Fast Company reported on the “great tech war” of the four leading horsemen of the Internet–Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple (let’s call them the FAGA Four). The race for Internet dominance has intensified since then, with Amazon … Continue reading
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2013 Data Science Salary Survey: Open source tools correlate with higher salary
“In our report, 2013 Data Science Salary Survey, we make our own data-driven contribution to the conversation. We collected a survey from attendees of the Strata Conference in New York and Santa Clara, California, about tool usage and salary… What … Continue reading