Mundie, senior advisor to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, was presenting latest MS Research technologies at Yale today. Shared desktop collaboration with Skype, intelligent mailbox filtering, tablets, data discovery, and, of course, big data analytics. You can read more about his…
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Craig Mundie discussing latest Microsoft Research tech at Yale
Tagged with: big data, Craig Mundie, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Steve Ballmer, Yale University
Posted in Technology
Posted in Technology
back by popular demand – so what would people do with Google Glass?
We recently posted a high-level analysis of Google Glass-related conversations on Twitter, which included a visualization of most frequent words and phrases used in #ifihadglass conversations. Some people asked if our tools are able to drill down more and extract…
Tagged with: analytics, big data, google, Google Glass, insights, Social Networking, twitter
Posted in Analysis, Technology, Tracking Social Events
Posted in Analysis, Technology, Tracking Social Events
The Hadoop wars: Hortonworks vs. Cloudera in Social Media
Hadoop is a big part of what we do. It’s great for processing large amounts of loosely structured data on commodity hardware. Cloudera and Hortonworks provide two of the most popular (in terms of corporate mindshare) distributions of Hadoop: CDH…
Tagged with: big data, CDH, cloudera, hadoop, HDP, Hortonworks
Posted in Technology, Tracking Social Events
Posted in Technology, Tracking Social Events
iTrend and Hortonworks Partner to Simplify Big Data Analytics
Stamford, CT – September 5, 2012 – iTrend LLC, a provider of big data analytics tools, today announced that it joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program to extend iTrend business intelligence tools to integrate with the Hortonworks Data Pl…
Personalized cancer therapy: two significant data sets made public
Good news for personalized medicine, especially as relates to cancer treatment – two research teams just released data on over 1,000 cell lines and anticancer drugs that were tested on them. One team identified biological markers of drug sensitivi…
Tagged with: analytics, big data, cancer, cell biology, data set, genetics, genomics, therapeutics, visualization
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Personalized medicine: merely scratching the surface
Last week’s announcement by IBM describes a promising biomedical analytics platform: Scientists from IBM Research are collaborating with theFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, a major research and treatment cancer center in Italy, on t…
Tagged with: big data, cancer, gene, healthcare, personalized medicine, sequencing
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#ILoveWalgreens is “trending” on Twitter worldwide. Why?
Twitter suggests #ILoveWalgreens is the hottest trending topic right now: Why is it trending (beside the obvious “promoted” label), and is there any useful data in the information that’s being posted with this tag? We ran our social math app, and …
Tagged with: analytics, big data, filter, itrend, noise, signal, social math, social media, tweets, twitter, visualization, Walgreens
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Today’s Hadoop-related conversations on Twitter, visualized
Today’s tweets are covering (starting with most popular) the following topics: Cloudera Big Data Oracle Big Data Appliance meetup Authors were using the following methods to tweet about Hadoop today (starting with most popular): Hootsuite Web Twee…
Oracle Big Data Appliance can now be purchased for $500,000
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance we had commented on previously is now available for purchase for USD $500,000. It runs Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. According to ZDNet, the appliance will run $450,000 with 12 percent hardware and software mainten…
Data Loss Prevention through Big Data analysis
With Stratfor still in the news after a massive security breach (you can read about it here), information security professionals should be looking into Big Data technologies. While it’s relatively easy to secure a web server, a database, or an iso…
Tagged with: big data, breach, Data Loss Prevention, DLP, hack, hadoop, Information Security, Intrusion Detection
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