Archives for 2013

Imagine What Big Data Could Do With Santa’s list

Consider the following scene: A conference room at a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm. The firm’s partners are discussing a potential investment from an entrepreneur who recently pitched them. Also attending is a chief executive of a micro-blogging site; a tech intern; and a secretary, who is taking notes and refreshing coffee.

How to Start Thinking Like a Data Scientist

The benefits of data science pervades the business community with a velocity that can take your breath away. But how might you start traveling down this road if you’re not actually a data scientist? One suggestion is you can start thinking like one! Here’s a very helpful article from the Harvard Business Review blog network, “How to Start Thinking Like a Data Scientist.”

Data Science 101: How to Build a Model

As part of insideBIGDATA’s new Data Science 101 series of educational articles tailored to the data science aficionados out there trying to retool themselves to take advantage of this growth area of technology, we bring you a series of well-crafted instructional videos from our friends over at Salford Systems.

Big Data Humor: Rise of the Machines

This is not your father’s Skynet! Where’s Sarah Connor when you need her? …

Data Science 101: The Power and Pitfalls of Clustering

I found two excellent survey articles published over on the India-based Analytics Vidhya blog that go through a review of all the important aspects of this powerful learning technique. Both hierarchical and K-means clustering are covered.

Dirty Secrets of Data Science

Famed data scientist Hilary Mason, previously Chief Scientist at Bitly, presents the “Dirty Secrets of Data Science” at Mortar Data’s first NYC Data Science Meetup.

Visualization of the Week: Citeology

Citeology is an extraordinary project coordinated by Justin Matejka, a member of the research laboratory of modeling software Autodesk/AutoCAD. Citeology looks at the relationships between research publications through their use of citations. The names of each of the 3,502 papers published at the ACM CHI and ACM UIST Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences between 1982 […]

Wibidata Machine Learning Platform

Many e-commerce companies wonder how they can compete with the recommender systems made famous by industry giants like Amazon. The new WibiEnterprise 3.0 platform from big data application provider Wibidata provides for building real-time apps that includes accessible machine learning to power a website with advanced analytics that fine-tunes itself, providing better recommendations and other features over time, including more relevant search results and personalized content.

Video: How Continuuity Eases Big Data App Development

In this video, Robert Scoble hosts Jonathan Gray from Continuuity to learn how his company makes Big Data application development accessible, powerful, fast and enjoyable.

Healthcare’s Resistance to Big Data

The healthcare industry is renowned for its tardiness in entering the big data realm. Invested in archaic IT technology and maintaining a mindset that technological change must progress at a snail’s pace, means that healthcare may be one of the last industries to benefit from what big data can deliver even though it is possibly […]