Big Data
Opening Day? Analytics Tools to Predict the World Series Now
Billy Bean and Theo Epstein are right: Baseball isn’t all about skills, tactics and chewing tobacco bubble gum, it’s about numbers, and maybe even numbers first. It’s Big Data in the big leagues, baby. Which means if you’re trying to figure out how optimistic — or nervous — you should be about your team’s performance this season, analytics can help. For those of you who don’t want to crunch your numbers via nostalgic pencil and paper or Microsoft Excel, there… continue…
How Kooky Kaggle Contests Advance Data Science
How Kooky Kaggle Contests Advance Data Science (via slashdot) Kaggle.com lets organizations and individuals post problems to its massive community of scientists. The prospect of crowdsourcing some of the world’s thorniest data conundrums is evidently a popular one: more than 82,000 people from 100 countries have signed on, and many of them have submitted at… continue…
SAP Targeting HANA, BI Tools at Small and Midsize Businesses
SAP Targeting HANA, BI Tools at Small and Midsize Businesses (via slashdot) There’s a lingering perception that Big Data is the exclusive domain of big companies with enormous datasets in need of mining—and the budget to pay for analysts, programmers, and all sorts of nifty tools. Yet smaller firms also have a need for data analytics—not only to crunch their customer… continue…
Game Studios at the Forefront of Big Data, Cloud
Game Studios at the Forefront of Big Data, Cloud (via slashdot) If you want to see the future of Big Data, look no further than the nearest gaming-development studio. It isn’t all fun and first-person-shooting. Game developers are the sentinels of a variety of advanced IT techniques, placing them in front of the general IT population with regard to using real… continue…
High Demand Pushes Linux Salaries Higher
Salaries for people skilled with Linux are rising at nearly double the rate of other tech professionals, and job prospects are strong, too: Some 93 percent of hiring managers plan to recruit Linux talent in the next six months. Those are just two of the optimistic findings in The 2013 Linux Jobs Report, a global survey of 850 hiring managers and 2,600 Linux professionals conducted by Dice and the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth of the… continue…
Intel’s New Hadoop Distribution Could Benefit Its Hardware Bottom Line
Intel’s New Hadoop Distribution Could Benefit Its Hardware Bottom Line (via slashdot) Intel plans on launching an Apache Hadoop distribution optimized for its own hardware, with global distribution planned for the second quarter of this year. While the move may come as a surprise to some, Intel has been signaling its software ambitions since at least 2009, when it bought embedded software…
Intel Launches Its Own Apache Hadoop Distribution
Intel Launches Its Own Apache Hadoop Distribution (via slashdot) It’s no secret that Apache Hadoop has caught on in a big way among companies large and small. The open-source framework specializes in running data applications on large hardware clusters, making it a particular favorite among firms such as Facebook and IBM with a lot of backend infrastructure (and… continue…
Teradata Seeks Both Tech and Soft Skills When It Hires
As Teradata rides the wave of data warehousing and analytics, it needs tech professionals who can not only create hardware and software, but also work directly with clients to apply that technology to solve their individual business problems. The Dayton, Ohio company hires in two areas: engineering and technical consulting. It has about 100 engineering openings at the moment in software, testing, hardware and architecture and a similar number in consulting. See All Dice Landing@ Stories “We’re looking for people… continue…
Newsom Book Argues for Open Government Data, Cloud
Newsom’s “Citizenville” Argues for Open Government Data, Cloud (via slashdot) Gavin Newsom has enjoyed quite a career in government: after serving two terms as mayor of San Francisco, he became lieutenant governor of California. Maintaining the status quo of our current political system, one could argue, is in his best interest. Yet in his new book “Citizenville” (co-written… continue…
Big Data, Big Box: How Two Startups Are Changing the Retail Game
Big Data Meets Big Box: How Two Startups Are Changing the Retail Game (via slashdot) Two St. Louis startups are working independently to change the way we shop for the basics such as groceries and hardware, with core strategies that rely on Big Data collections to transform the buying process and improve the flow of information from consumers to retailers and brands. The startups are… continue…
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