In this video from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013, Bill Gates presents: Innovation and Opportunity: The Contribution of Computing to Improving Our World. Gates is introduced by Tony Hey, VP of Microsoft Research Connections.

In this Silicon Angle video from the Hadoop Summit, Jeff Magnusson from Netflix describes the open-source technologies his company uses to keep track of consumer trends. Netflix utilizes Apache Pig for recommendations, video optimization and other important workflows. Pig syntax is highly abstracted, Magnusson explains, but raw code is often difficult to understand due to […]

In this video from TEDxAustin, Dr. Joel Selanikio describes how he combines technology and data to help solve global health challenges. Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data — and from this gappy […]

Over at Small Business Trends, Pierre Dubois from Zimana has posted a review of the new book: Number Sense – How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage by Harvard’s Kaiser Fung. Data gives theory legitimacy. But every analysis also sits on top of theory. Bad theory cannot be saved by data. Worse, bad theory […]

GE has launched a series of Big Data commercials that tout the value of its intelligent machines. The mini-films were shot on location at Miniatur Wunderland, a massive world of model trains and their surroundings in Hamburg that’s loaded with intricate replicas of an airport, ships, hospitals, a soccer stadium, and countless itsy-bitsy inhabitants. GE […]

In this video from PyCon Australia, Edward Schofield presents a tutorial on using the latest tools in Python for scientific and engineering Big Data applications. Using real-world data sets and a fully Python 3 environment, Schofield walks you through what’s possible with modern tools like the machine-learning package scikit-learn, the image-processing package scikit-image, the Pandas […]

  The International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place November 18 at the Colorado Convention Center in conjuction with SC13. Existing high performance computing (HPC) systems are designed primarily for workloads requiring high rates of computation. However, the widening performance gap between processors and […]

In this video from the 2013 Hadoop Summit, Ofer Mendelevitch from Hortonworks presents: Data Science with Hadoop – A Primer. Apache Hadoop is quickly becoming the technology of choice for organizations investing in big data, powering their next generation data architecture. With Hadoop serving as both a scalable data platform and computational engine, data science […]