Agile

The New York Times 3/25/2013 – IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy. That’s when the federal government started putting tax returns into those giant machines, and consumer credit bureaus began building databases containing the personal financial information of millions of Americans. Many people feared that the new computerized databanks would be put in the service of an intrusive corporate or government Big Brother.

3/21/2013 – The following post presents the video of a talk by Hong Ooi who presented at Melbourne R Users, March 2013. Greenplum is a massively parallel relational database platform. R is one of the top languages in the data scientist/applied statistician community. In this talk, Hong gives an overview of how they work together, both with R on the desktop and as an embedded in-database analytics tool. It’ll be a variation of a talk recently presented at the UseR 2012 Conference.

GigaOm 3/19/2013 – In the last three decades, we’ve seen a shift in enterprise information technology, from mainframes that automated our financial information, to the client-server and web-based world that aimed to replace most paper-based processes with “systems” like CRM, ERP, e-commerce and email. And now, in the cloud era, we find ourselves on the brink of another transformative shift. This one is driven by the explosion of data and the need for traditional enterprises to find new business value through new business models and building better customer experiences.

3/13/2013 – Collaborate and derive insight from your data. Greenplum Chorus™—the industry’s first agile analytics productivity platform—which empowers people within an enterprise to more easily collaborate and derive insight from their data.

Gigaom 3/11/2013 – We talk a lot about big data, but only analyze 1 percent of what’s available. In order to take advantage of the other 99 percent, we need to reconsider how we do big data. The other 99 percent of the 1 quintillion bytes of data that is collected every day (according to a recent study from IDC) remains untouched.