IT continues to struggle to find software developers, data analysts
The good news is that more businesses are planning to boost their IT hiring in 2015. The bad news? Many are struggling to find talent to fill vacant or newly created roles, especially for software...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Is big data really for you? Things to consider...
Simply stated, the best way to incorporate Big Data into your information management strategy is by not thinking about Big Data at all, but by bringing it on-board because of business requirements and...
View ArticleIBM commits to Apache Spark compute engine
Calling Apache Spark "the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data," IBM today announced that it will embed the compute engine into its analytics and commerce...
View Article8 ways to make the most out of your customer data
Everyone talks about the importance of big data. But many organizations, although they collect and store customer data, do not put that data to good use – or they don’t know how to.“For example, by...
View ArticleHow to collect and analyze data from 100,000 weather stations
If you want to understand what it takes to collect, track and analyze reams of data, just check the weather. There are constant fluctuations, scores of data points and intense interest from all over...
View ArticleEtsy dips toes into crowdfunding
Etsy is trying out a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding service that, if successful, could help the company grow its business by expanding the number and type of items available for sale on its site.Fund...
View ArticleHow predictive analytics can help end slave labor
How many slaves work for you? If you own electronics, jewelry or sporting goods; drink coffee or tea; eat food or wear clothes, it's more than you think. It's probably a lot. If you dig deep enough...
View ArticleReview: Qlik Sense 2 chases Tableau
QlikTech’s Qlik Sense, introduced in 2014, is a do-it-yourself BI and visualization product based on the same in-memory associative data indexing engine as the company’s QlikView product, which has...
View ArticleWhy R? The pros and cons of the R language
The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the...
View ArticleR Consortium aims to strengthen data analysis
The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language, a specialized programming language for...
View ArticleUpdate: Google, Microsoft, Oracle back new R Consortium at Linux Foundation
As foreshadowed on Twitter yesterday, a new R Consortium of major vendors launched today aimed at "strengthen[ing] both the technical and user communities," according to a Linux Foundation...
View ArticleZuckerberg wants to be the Stephen Hawking of social relations
Facebook uses an algorithm for its News Feed, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg is after something much bigger: One that governs all human relationships.“I’m most interested in questions about people,” the...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: When data quality doesn't matter
Data quality does not matter if you are not afraid of litigation, lost customers, lost revenues, hidden costs, wrong decisions, and many other possible consequences. If you are not afraid or have not...
View ArticleScott McNealy sees gold in the hills of social data
It’s coming up on four years since ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy launched Wayin, but the startup today bears little resemblance to its original self.When it was conceived, Wayin was billed as a social...
View ArticleSelf-service BI review: Tableau vs. Qlik Sense vs. Power BI
Watching the new, easy-to-use, exploratory business intelligence products edge out the older, feature-bloated reporting platforms for systems of record is like watching evolution in action. Let’s face...
View ArticleThe curious case of Google Street View's missing streets
With the arrival of El Capitan on Google Street View last month, you can now haul yourself virtually up one of the most famous rock faces in the world. Navigating certain streets in urban areas,...
View ArticleGE, Pitney Bowes team up on predictive and prescriptive analytics
GE and Pitney Bowes are going to bring the power of predictive and prescriptive analytics to mail production mail.The two companies today sealed an alliance around GE's Predix software platform for...
View ArticleCan Microsoft’s Azure bring machine learning to the masses?
Machine learning makes software smarter and more aware. It’s becoming as integral to our collective computing experience as the Internet itself. But how can developers really get started with it?...
View ArticleEsri to unveil mapping tools in R
Esri is set to announce an open-source software bridge that makes it faster and easier to move mapping data between ArcGIS and R. The aim is to help R users tap into an organization's GIS data housed...
View ArticleStartup launches big data-as-a-service
For many enterprises, big data is hard and slow. Procurement and deployment of data infrastructure can be both expensive and difficult to scale at the pace that data volumes can grow. A startup...
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