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Trifacta Narrows the Gap Between Big Data and Insight Big Data is messy -- you don’t need a data scientist to tell you that. It’s comprised of structured, unstructured, semi-stuctured data … and before you can work with it, it needs to be cleaned up.
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“I hope it’s not big data,” one of them said -- I think it may have been Om Malik. It seemed as if the term was being used “temporarily” until someone came up with something better. Needless to say, it stuck.
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The love child of SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner has taken to the company blog to politely coax IBM Ginni Rometty’s Jeopardy-winning cog (this is the term that IBM is beginning to use for cognitive technology) into a relationship.
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Yes, Big Data was a Big Buzzword in 2013. The technology and business press — and even mainstream media — got a piece of the action, churning out article after article about what Big Data means to you. And that's part of the problem.
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Big data never sleeps, or at least big data vendors don’t. We thought that after we reported and recapped all that went on at Strata+ Hadoop World, all would be calm for a while … That didn’t happen.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends … Even though we’ve left the Strata + Hadoop World conference held in New York City last week, the notable news we didn’t report keeps buzzing in our ears, reminding us that we need to share it with you.
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Dear New York Times, AllThingsD and anyone else who says that big data is an "Economic Big Dud," we have news for you -- you’re wrong.
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IBM buys The Now Factory, Xactly releases MapR’s Hadoop distro and more big news from the world of data.
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Big Data keeps getting bigger, but Big Data vendors seem to have it under control. They keep upgrading Hadoop’s performance, making it run faster, and releasing distributions that are more stable, Enterprise-worthy, and ready for real time.
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There’s never a dull moment in the world of Big Data and last week was no different. We saw prizes, surprises, funding announcements, donations and an unusual type of disclosure by a Big Data company.
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It’s not just Big Data that keeps getting bigger, but also the ecosystem around it. Hadoop, now in its seventh year, has spawned more companies, more applications and more ancillary technologies than most of us can name or count. It’s the beauty of Apache’s brand of Open Source.
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Europe seems to be on holiday this week and in North America it’s the unofficial last week of summer. But in the world of Big Data there’s no time for reclining or relaxing. Though we can’t cover everything, here are a few bits of news we find worth mentioning.
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There’s always plenty of news in the Big Data world and, try as we might, we can’t cover it all; so we’re highlighting a few of the items that made us take notice and offering a wee-bit of context around it.
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