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Gartner on Big Data
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in … Continue reading
The Big Data Interview: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO, EMC
If data sits on a desk somewhere and is not being used, it’s an opportunity wasted Sanjay Mirchandani believes IT has to take the lead in adding value to the business in the form of big data “addictive analytics.” Mirchandani … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 22, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 3. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 15, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 3. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 4. Christopher Berry, The Analytics Revolution, @cjpberry 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
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Mingsheng Hong: The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager
Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great start yesterday with a presentation titled “The Scientist, The Team and The Purpose,” entertainingly delivered by Mingsheng Hong, Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt.
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 8, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
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Data Scientists and Big Data Executives to Convene in Boston, September 13-14
A great program is in store for attendees of The Big Data Innovation Summit, September 13-14 in Boston, an event for which this blog is a media sponsor. The summit will bring together senior data scientists and business executives to … Continue reading
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The Data Science Interview: Edwin Chen, Twitter
I don’t do pure research—my analysis enables real-world functionality Currently mining terabytes of tweets as a data scientist with Twitter, Edwin Chen studied math and linguistics at MIT and then crunched numbers at Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium Capital Management. … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 1, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Christopher Berry, The Analytics Revolution, @cjpberry 4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 5. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia Source: Traackr
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The Data Science Interview: Yun Xiong, Fudan University
The Goal of Data Science is to Study the Phenomena and Laws of Datanature Yun Xiong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science and Dataology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. … Continue reading
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