There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
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BioNimbus is a new patent-pending technology from Nimbus-Online Inc. that shows truthful human reactions to any part of a package while it is moving through a 3D virtual reality space. The ability to zero in on specific parts of something a ...
A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from?Big Data in a research report?published this week. The Big Data in Big Companies report describes how around 20 large firms have deployed analytics software to benefit ...
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Demand for SAS-based higher education courses is so high that only a small percentage of prospective students who apply for qualifications in the subject at university actually get a place at an institution, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has told ...
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The Shakespeare Review into public sector data has suggested that data held across the public sector, including the National Health Service ought to be used to drive economic growth. Further reading Obama signs executive order promoting ...
Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true value of big data, according to Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata. Brobst was speaking to CNME at Teradata ...
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Teradata today became the first company to offer business analysts streamlined and self-service access to Apache Hadoop. Teredata Enterprise Access for Hadoop allows organisations to reach directly into Hadoop to find new value from data ...
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IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest big data challenge – researching the origins of the universe. The two organisations are inviting professors, scientists and ...
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Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
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According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015. While businesses are keen to ...
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There is a shortage of big data modellers as well as data scientists, according to the senior vice president of IT research firm Infosys Labs, Subu Goparaju. Infosys Labs is the research arm of IT business consulting firm Infosys, ...
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IBM has rolled out a tool it says can cull massive terabytes of data, including email — to help customers detect external attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information or insider threats that might reveal corporate secrets. The ...
Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven't got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, thanks to a new release from Hadoop distributor Hortonworks. Hortonworks Sandbox is a ...
UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...