Category Archives: Big Data
Big Data and Data Science Events September-December 2012
Big Data and Data Science Events September – December 2012 Last updated September 16, 2012 TDWI World Conference Sep 16–21, Boston Predictive Analytics World–Government September 17-18, Washington DC *** To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, … Continue reading
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Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Big Data
Louis Columbus at Forbes.com surveys key big data forecasts and market size estimates, including Gartner’s recent Hype Cycle for Big Data. The winning technologies in the immediate future? “Column-Store DBMS, Cloud Computing, In-Memory Database Management Systems will be the three most transformational technologies in … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: August 10, 2012
“With big data, you have only two concerns, but they are, naturally, big ones: where the data will come from and what your company will do with it. Solve these and you have big data licked… IT projects have to … Continue reading
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Graduate Programs in Data Science and Big Data Analytics
Graduate Programs in Data Science and Big Data Analytics Last updated: July 9, 2019 See below for online programs and courses and other options and resources Aegis School of Business, Data Science & Telecommunication (India) Post Graduate Program in Business … Continue reading
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Big Data Events
Big Data and Data Science Events August – November 2012 Last updated August 6, 2012 Highlights: Partner Events Big Data Innovation Summit September 13-14, Boston Predictive Analytics World–Government September 17-18, Washington DC To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and … Continue reading
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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
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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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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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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“The world is one big data problem. There’s a bit of arrogance in that, and a bit of truth as well.”–Andrew McAfee “…one of the most exciting parts of the LinkedIn platform and the LinkedIn ecosystem is that the more … Continue reading
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A Very Short History of Big Data
In addition to researching A Very Short History of Data Science, I have also been looking at the history of how data became big. Here I focus on the history of attempts to quantify the growth rate in the volume … Continue reading
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