Recent surveys suggest the number one investment area for both private and public organizations is the design and building of a modern data…

We have received a lot of messages about our 6-month data science apprenticeship. We are currently writing the book that will teach you everything you need to know to become a real data scientist.

Our…

Yesterday, there was a meetup in Arlington on Political Campaign Data Science with a panel of four experts to talk about their work. As we have all heard, the 2012 Presidential election was steeped in data like never before, with the Obama campaign in particular using advanced analytical methods to target voters, and with Nate Silver and other polling aggregators providing fascinating insights into the dynamics of the campaign. Sasha Issenberg,…

Data science and business analytics works with both structured and unstructured data. Yet the future belongs to unstructured or semi-structured data from both internal and external sources.

Featured Discussions

• Exploring The Art and Science of Visual of Analysis…

Enjoy the reading!

• Can data scientists replace business analysts? | DSC…

How big data is shaping mobile user expectations

By Jeff Hasen

Hipcricket Chief Marketing Officer, Thought Leader (ART+DATA) Institute and author of…

In following the big data 'buzz' and trends, it appears that there is a disconnect between our analytical goals (i.e., the types of questions our customers are trying to answer) and the computational substrate on which we build in order to answer them.

NoSQL technologies, while being far more…

As a technologist and evangelist working in the big data marketplace it is certainly exciting. I am excited by the new products we are bringing to market and how this new functionality really helps to bridge the gap for Enterprises adoption. It is also surreal, in terms of the number of blog posts, tweets on Big Data and there seems to be a new big data conference cropping up on a weekly basis across Europe :-)



It is interesting to monitor other vendors in the…

An article from MIT entitled "…

Hear from Splunk and 451Research on big data best practices and three "real world" case studies of Splunk customers handling the variety and velocity of their ever increasing unstructured data.

Watch now to see examples of big data in action from companies such as CenturyLink, Intuit and Groupon. They are turning massive…

LinkedIn was founded in 2003, is currently revenue 243 million and employs 1797 people. This is not what we call a large company. However, LinkedIn has 175 million members in 200 countries including 50% outside the U.S., two new members join the network every second, and analysts said that all "executive" of the Global 500 are members. Under these conditions, LinkedIn is facing a high volume of data to process. Indeed their information system must support 2 billion a year of research carried…