“More Hands Than Our Own”: Greenplum’s Logan Lee on Opening Chorus
Data science is a team sport that thrives upon collaboration, quick iteration, and a healthy amount of collegial competitiveness. These characteristics also drive development in the open source software community. So it’s fitting that Greenplum announced the release of Chorus, its social platform for collaboration on predictive analytics projects, as an open source project last week at the Strata Conference in New York City.
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OpenChorus and Greenplum’s Kaggle Partnership in the News
This week’s announcement that Greenplum is open-sourcing its collaborative data science platform Chorus and partnering with Kaggle to connect OpenChorus users with the data scientist elite has generated lots of press. Announced at this week’s O’Reilly Strata conference in New York City, OpenChorus and the Kaggle partnership will enable customers, partners, developers, and data scientists to collaboratively realize the predictive potential of Big Data. Here’s a roundup of some of the responses in the media:
The New York Times Bits blog: Creating Big Data’s Talent Mart
Scott Yara, a co-founder of Greenplum and now its senior vice president of products, said his company already has a dedicated staff of 25 data scientists but has more work than it can handle.
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Greenplum and Kaggle Partner to Connect OpenChorus Users with the Data Science Elite
The high demand for data scientists is an significant challenge for increasingly predictive enterprises. It’s is a sophisticated vocation, requiring a range of specialized skills. Kaggle, the online platform for data science competitions, is unique in that it has attracted a community of thousands of skilled practitioners.
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Data Science: Neither Elementary Nor Magic
A recent GigaOm post, “Why becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think”, has fired up considerable debate in the community. Just from reading the headline, you can probably infer why. Derrick Harris points to the success of a handful of programming neophytes who won Kaggle competitions after taking a class on Coursera, a free online machine learning course co-founded by Stanford professor Andrew Ng.
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The 2012 Code for America Summit: Democracy Behind and Beyond the Dashboard
The growth of the civic tech movement in recent years is impressive. Ranging from citizen-developed bus tracking mobile apps to municipal and federal open data portals, the scope and goals of these efforts vary widely. What unites this loose-knit federation of policy makers, developers, data divers, journalists, advocacy groups, and entrepreneurs is the goal to apply the innovations of open source software, the real-time web, and Big Data analytics, to make government more efficient, transparent, and representative.
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New Report Looks at Big Data’s Impact on Health Care
While proposed solutions are a matter of fierce debate, there’s few who would argue that the United States health care system is inefficient and in need of creative disruption. As a result, an increasing number of health care providers, researchers, and insurers are looking towards Big Data to reduce inefficiencies and improve quality of care.
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Greenplum’s Jarrod Vawdrey on Hot Trends in Analytics
This is a guest post from the SAS Voices blog written by Scott VanValkenburgh, Senior Director of Alliances at SAS.
SAS partners always bring valuable thought-leadership and industry perspectives to customer at events like Analytics 2012 and The Premier Business Leadership Series. Joining Deloitte and Teradata to talk about big data opportunities and trends is Jarrod Vawdrey, data scientist with Greenplum, a division of EMC.
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