Gartner Publishes North Pole Big Data Assessment
Delivering toys to millions of children around the world in one night: suffice to say, Santa and his helpers at the North Pole may have been the first enterprise to contend with Big Data’s challenges. How does he keep track of all those wish lists, perform QA tests on prototypes, and ensure that toy production is on track to meet his yearly launch date of December 24th?
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Meet the “Team of Rivals” Building Greenplum HD
When our company was acquired by EMC in July of 2010, we could have easily been scooped up and monetized as a pretty nice data warehousing business for our parent company. They decided to do the opposite. EMC’s leadership believed in our team and our vision for leading the Big Data analytics industry and decided to double down on their investment.
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D.J. Patil: Data Science is Storytelling
There’s a significant gulf between collecting Big Data and being able to confidently act upon it. In that gulf you’ll find data scientists developing and refining models, identifying questions, and communicating the insights and predictions that emerge. Effectively conveying these conclusions requires more than simply plotting points on a graph or map: it’s a narrative process.
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Study Finds Surprising Links Between Social Media and Music Sales
With the music industry still scrambling to make money in the age of digital distribution, companies and musicians are increasingly turning to data to crack the code. In response to the low royalty rates paid by streaming audio services, cellist Zoë Keating recently declared on her blog, “the law only demands I be paid in money, which at this point in my career is not as valuable as information.
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Greenplum Plugs In To Gnip
With data from social media platforms accounting for an ever-increasing amount of the Big Data deluge, collecting that data becomes an ever-moving target. As social networks proliferate, so do the respective services’ APIs and access policies. Social media aggregator Gnip aims to simplify the process, allowing businesses to focus on reaping social data insight, rather than tracking which services are hot, which are not, and which have changed their API policies.
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