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R Consortium aims to strengthen data analysis

Representatives from the R Foundation and industry representatives including Microsoft, Google and Oracle have formed the R Consortium to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R programming language for statistical data analysis.

Jun 30, 2015

Big Data Data Mining Hadoop

comScore CTO shares big data lessons

Digital analytics company comScore has been using Hadoop to process its big data since 2009. With six years of experience using the technology in production, comScore CTO Mike Brown shares some of the lessons he's learned.

Jun 29, 2015

Big Data CTO IT Governance

The grand unified theory of metadata governance

Metadata fabrics will be critical to IoT success, here's a look at why a curated, healthy metadata fabric is necessary for IoT ROI.

Jun 23, 2015 9 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence CIO

IBM Bluemix powers hybrid cloud apps for IoT, analytics

Capgemini subsidiary Sogeti will use IBM Bluemix to help developers and clients in 15 countries build Internet of Things and analytics applications for a range of vertical industries.

Jun 18, 2015

Hybrid Cloud Internet of Things Technology Industry

How predictive analytics can help end slave labor

Slavery may be illegal around the world, but the practice is alive and well. Whether you know it or not, it probably supports your modern lifestyle. Supply chain analytics can help companies discover forced labor and child labor in their sub-tier sup

Jun 17, 2015

Markets Predictive Analytics Technology Industry

How to collect and analyze data from 100,000 weather stations

Want to know what itu2019s like to analyze massive amounts of data under pressure? Talk to Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company (which owns the Weather Channel), who must interpret data sets from around the world to predict something as volatil

Jun 16, 2015

Analytics Big Data

IBM commits to Apache Spark compute engine

Big Blue will embed Spark in its platforms and offer itas a service on its IBM Bluemix cloud. It will also an donate its IBM SystemML machine learning technology to the Spark open source ecosystem.

Jun 15, 2015

Analytics Big Data Hadoop

Cascading big data framework gets Apache Tez support

Big data application platform specialist Concurrent, primary sponsor of the Cascading open source Java big data application framework, has released Cascading 3.0 with support for the Apache Tez compute fabric.

Jun 9, 2015

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