The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreWhen Hilary Mason talks about data, it’s a good idea to listen. She was chief data scientist at Bit.ly, data scientist in…
Read MoreMicrosoft has agreed to acquire Revolution Analytics, a company built around commercial software and support for the popular R statistical computing project. The…
Read MoreUniversity of Pennsylvania researchers have found that the words people use on Twitter can help predict the rate of heart disease deaths in…
Read MoreIBM has recruited a couple of new partners in its quest to mainstream its Watson cognitive computing system: financial investment specialist Vantage…
Read MorePinterest announced Wednesday that it has acquired Kosei, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that focuses on machine learning for product recommendations. It’s a…
Read MoreThe second-annual Structure Data Awards are here, where Gigaom picks the most-interesting and most-promising data startups that launched in the previous year.…
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Read MoreInterana, a Menlo Park, California, analytics startup that officially launched in October has closed a $20 million Series B round. Index Ventures led the…
Read MoreHadoop software company Cloudera has worked with Google to make Google’s Dataflow programming model run on Apache Spark. Dataflow, which Google announced as a…
Read MoreLast month, [company]IBM[/company] made available the beta version of its Watson Analytics data analysis service, an offering first announced in September. It’s…
Read MoreJean Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT and the creator of a language called Jeeves that automatically manages privacy policy in…
Read MoreA new report from the National Research Council concludes that untargeted, or bulk, data collection remains probably the best method for fulfilling the National…
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