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I thought you would appreciate some more information about the annual Text Analytics Summit (June 12-13, Boston), featuring fascinating case studies from NASA, AMEX, eBay, Monster.com, Disney, National Archives, Fidelity Investments and many more.…

Here are Wikipedia links. Follow them to read about the history of these analytic companies and software over the last 30 years

1. Greenplum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenplum…

This is our third post in our series of "great articles". For each article, click on the link after the title to read the full story.

1. How Big Data Will Disrupt the $9 Billion Music Publishing Rights Business - …

Our latest contest is live! Feel free to signup. This contest is based on the Euro Soccer championship. You will develop an algorithm that can predict the ranking & outcome of each of the participating nations playing in the Euro 2012 championship. Our results will be announced after the 1st of July, 2012 (after the finals of Euro 2012). Solver celebration and prizes of $500 to be won!

The contest link - …

• [Poll] As a data scientist / analytic professional, how frequently do you telecommute? -http://www.datasciencecentral.com/forum/topics/poll-as-a-data-scien...
• Data science jobs not requiring human…

By John Sumser

In the 20th Century, progress was driven by the principles of automation. The more you could streamline and control a process, the cheaper you could make it. Repeatability was the key.

Monitoring, in the form of process…

Our newsletter has four sections, separated by horizontal lines: Announcements, Message From The Editor, Best Blogs, and Job Ads.

1. Announcements…

Machine data is the fastest growing, most pervasive part of “big data”. It is also the most valuable, containing a critical record of user behavior, security risks, service levels, fraudulent activity, customer experience and more

Should you be proactive, hire an expert before a crisis, or just hire someone when you have a major problem, such as

1. Huge, unexpected churn requiring root cause analysis (happened to T-Mobile in 2011)
2. Increasingly sophisticated…

Sometime today, shares of the data analysis company Splunk will start trading on the Nasdaq National Market in New York, after pricing last night at $17 a share. The company’s offering has raised about $230 million.

Splunk is not your traditional big-data company, in that it is running some variant of Hadoop, like so many upstart companies in that space. Its specialty, as …

Companies hiring analytic talent have been complaining for a few years about how hard it is to find good data scientist. Our analysis of job board data (based on Indeed, Datashaping and Analyticbridge statistics) reveals that a job ad specifying two possible locations - e.g. San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA - generates on average 5 times more page views, than a job ad targeting a single location.

The impact is…

Outside the traditional business analytics / BI fields.

1. Algorithms and Numerical Techniques
2. Application Design and Porting Techniques
3. Astronomy and Astrophysics
4. Audio, Image and Video Processing
5. Bioinformatics…

Faces of Deloitte Analytics

http://www.analyticbridge.com/group/faces-of-analytics-and-data-sci...

eBay, IHG, Equifax and IBM discuss enterprise big data (June 27-28, San Francisco)…