Haul out those data scientist demand projections for a refresh — just as several tech consultants had predicted a year ago, new technology looks ready to simplify a lot of the analytics so a business analyst, maybe even a mere business person, can handle them. Estimates of the data scientist shortage had ranged from 150,000 to 1.5 million, depending on the geography and the definition of data scientist or d ...

Zettaset Supports Launch of Intel(R) Distribution for Apache Hadoop Zettaset Orchestrator(TM) Operates Seamlessly With the Intel(R) Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/26/13 -- Zettaset, the leader in secure Big Data management, announced today that it supports the launch of the Intel(R) Distribution for Apache Hadoop(TM) (hadoop.intel.com/). Zettaset Orchestrator ...

Infosys launches BigDataEdge: New Platform Develops Enterprise Insights up to Eight Times Faster, Fosters Near Real-Time Decisions and Actions New York, February 20, 2013: Infosys today announced the launch of BigDataEdge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein derived that light was composed of particles by fitting his theory to just a handful of data points. This discovery changed our understanding of basic physics and helped usher in a new era of quantum mechanics. Today, scientists often need to interpret much larger data sets to drive discoveries. A little more than a decade ago, the first sequencing of a human genome cost $100 millio ...

There's a lot more to Microsoft's big data strategy than a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks. In fact, Hadoop is just the beginning of what Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell describes as "an information production line." You don't hear much about Microsoft in the big data market, but the company wants the world to know it has big plans. In fact, it's living big data through its Bing search engine, ...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SAP on Friday announced NBA.com/stats, a destination on NBA.com that will enable fans to analyze statistics from the latest games and back to the league's founding in 1946. The analysis engine behind the scenes is SAP's Hana database, which was chosen for its ability to quickly slice and dice the data entirely in memory. "We knew traditional data warehouse metho ...

Everyone in the Tech Industry knows CrunchBase, the crowd-sourced database of companies and people.  So when our team of data geeks found out that CrunchBase had opened its API to the world, we thought it was a great opportunity to use our Big Data Analytics software to crunch CrunchBase data. We imported all of CrunchBase data into SiSense Prism, combined the 50+ tables and the 100′s of thousands of rows t ...

Research scientists, companies launching new products, and even governments are enthused about the potential of Big Data. Whether you buy into the idea that Big Data is something new and novel or just the latest term to reference new kinds of analytics, it is clear that innovators around the world are already delivering on new advances. Yet, at the same time that the tech and research communities are applau ...

As we roll into 2013, a general truth dawns unto us, as we peer into our dashboards with various financial and market graphs and numbers - the truth that the year 2013 would be the year of the “Big Data Analytics”. 2012 will be known as the year of the POCs’ in the Big Data space, where we, consulting companies and product companies as well, worked tirelessly to prove the concepts and validate the promises ...

I really like playing around with cutting edge technologies. One of them is GoodData CloudConnect, the tool for ETL and building GoodData projects. Since we released this new feature, I have dozens of ideas how the data from various sources can be easily transformed in the cloud. Recently, for example, I found myself wondering: “How about using the Google BigQuery API as a data source? What about visualizin ...