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Jennifer PriestleyBig Data Education: 3 Steps Universities Must Take
November 15, 2012 09:06 AM How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with tomorrow's analytics pros.
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Doug HenschenSears Hadoop Plans: Check Out Data Warehousing's Future
November 14, 2012 11:33 AM Will Hadoop become the new enterprise data warehouse? Sears' CTO is not alone in seeing a shift in how we'll use relational databases.
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Mark E. JohnsonHurricane Sandy: Big Data Predicted Big Power Outages
November 12, 2012 12:07 PM What can be learned for future weather events? For starters, simulations must happen quickly and no single forecasting model will do.
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Eric LundquistNate Silver's Big Data Lessons For The Enterprise
November 08, 2012 11:40 AM Big data analytics have proven their mettle in predicting baseball and election success. How can you make them work for your business?
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Tony ByrneSmall Data Beat Big Data In Election 2012
November 07, 2012 01:47 PM The Obama re-election machine was really about small data--and enterprises can learn from that.
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Rajan ChandrasData Governance: No Single Solution
November 06, 2012 08:34 AM The problem isn't a shortage of products. It's a shortage of clarity and vision.
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Mark E. JohnsonBig Data Education: When Should It Start?
November 02, 2012 10:50 AM When elementary school students find data that interests them, they're ready to learn basic statistics concepts. The key: make data analysis relevant to young learners.
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Paul CerratoBig Data Analytics: Where's The ROI?
November 01, 2012 12:23 PM Not everyone is impressed with the latest health IT megatrend. At least one prominent critic says payment reform should take precedence.
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Cindi HowsonBig Data Meets BI: Beyond The Hype
October 30, 2012 08:40 AM With Hadoop quickly gaining adoption, Cloudera, Platfora, SiSense and others are introducing new options for gaining business intelligence from this big data platform.
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Fritz NelsonAlteryx: Data Analysis For 'Mere Mortals'
October 29, 2012 01:38 PM Company lets business users analyze big data with no need for data scientists, says CEO. Watch our Valley View video.
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Paul CerratoIBM Watson Finally Graduates Medical School
October 23, 2012 09:07 AM Partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center suggests IBM's supercomputer is ready to help oncologists manage their most challenging cases.
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Doug HenschenSAS Gets Hip To Hadoop For Big Data
October 15, 2012 08:30 AM SAS High-Performance Analytic Server heads for Hadoop, bringing SAS data mining, text mining, optimization, and forecasting capabilities beyond the relational database world.
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Cindi HowsonOracle Exalytics: Is It A Must-Have for BI?
October 11, 2012 12:34 PM Oracle's latest engineered system promises better business intelligence performance and ease of deployment, but the tradeoff is in openness to third-party tools.
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Fritz NelsonMemo To Oracle, SAP: Listen To P&G's Language
October 10, 2012 08:36 AM Oracle and SAP keep fighting a war of words over whose technology is bigger and better. They could learn a lot from Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini's big data work.
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Doug HenschenOracle Open World: 6 Rants and Raves
October 04, 2012 09:25 AM Oracle's cloud vision and announcements on key features deserve praise, but we need to see more substance behind the promises and more reality in the claims.
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Jonathan FeldmanUnlocking Big Government Data: Whose Job Is It?
October 01, 2012 10:13 AM It's not just a good idea for private-sector organizations to help open up the treasure trove of government big data. It's a necessity.
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Doug HenschenFacebook Seeks Next-Generation Big Data Tools
September 28, 2012 09:14 AM Social network giant Facebook and venture capital blue chip Accel Partners think emerging platforms like Hadoop deserve new business intelligence, data visualization, and analytics tools.
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Seth GrimesTwitter Helps Build Social Data Ecosystem
September 25, 2012 08:17 AM Twitter's Certified Products Program is a step in the right direction toward improving data quality, analysis, and social business decision making. Let's hope Facebook and LinkedIn follow suit.
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Mark PetersTech Alone Not Enough To Manage Big Data
September 20, 2012 09:00 AM Studies show that big corporations worry about hiring enough skilled humans to manage big data--a surprising need considering all the advanced automation tools at our disposal.
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Doug HenschenHortonworks' Hadoop Dilemma: Get Rich Giving Ideas Away
September 18, 2012 08:26 AM Hortonworks shares its innovations with everybody, including rivals Cloudera and MapR. CEO Rob Bearden says the market will 'return to its rightful owner.'
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