Kaggle Announces Leaderboard of Data Scientists
by Angela Guess Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions recently announced that in honor of the their second anniversary, the company is “releasing its first-ever global leaderboard of...
View ArticleBig Book Data
by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more...
View ArticleTurning Data Inside Out
by Angela Guess Bruce Upbin of Forbes recently discussed a number of companies that reflect gathered customer data back on their customers, or as he puts it, companies that turn their data inside out....
View ArticleIs Google Hi-Jacking the Semantic Web?
by Angela Guess The web has been abuzz with talk of Google’s new Knowledge Graph. Sean Golliher of SemanticWeb.com commented on the news, “For those involved in the Semantic Web, Google’s ‘Knowledge...
View ArticleAll the Olympics Data You Could Ever Want
by Angela Guess Guardian.co.uk has launched a special London 2012 Olympics website to collect all sorts of data from the upcoming event. Simon Rogers reports, “As soon as the first Olympic events begin...
View ArticleSaving Lives with Big Data
by Angela Guess Mike Wheatley of SiliconAngle reports, “It’s not just big businesses that can benefit from harnessing data to streamline their operations. There’s more potential for big data analysis...
View ArticleBig Data at the UN
by Angela Guess An article on UN.org highlights the use of Big Data (or the potential uses) at the United Nations. The article begins, “The era of ‘Big Data’ presents the United Nations with an...
View ArticleBig Data is Good, Open Data is Best
by Angela Guess Nathan Eddy of eWeek reports, “A Gartner report suggests open data can be more valuable to businesses than collecting big data.” He explains, “Businesses of all sizes continue to...
View ArticleBig Open Data
by Angela Guess Alexander Howard has written an article for Slate.com regarding Big Data, open data, and the “data economy.” He writes, “We’re living in the exabyte age, where the actions of billions...
View ArticlePowering the Super Researcher
by Angela Guess Mike Ashenfelder of the Library of Congress recently discussed how Big Data is spurring the dawn of the “super researcher.” He writes, “In separate ‘big data’ presentations at the...
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