Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called Airpal that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… Read more »
One of the biggest tropes in the era of big data is that data is the new oil — it’s very valuable to the companies that have it, but only after… Read more »
Titles can be misleading. For example, the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference took place in San Jose, California, this week but Hadoop wasn’t the star of the show. Based on… Read more »
Gigaom’s Structure Data conference is less than a month away, kicking off March 18 in New York. There are a lot of reasons to attend — great location, great networking, free drinks –… Read more »
Mode, a startup that’s trying to be something like a GitHub for data scientists, has added new features to its collaboration platform that make it easier to write SQL queries and… Read more »
When Hilary Mason talks about data, it’s a good idea to listen. She was chief data scientist at Bit.ly, data scientist in residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and is… Read more »
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Revolution Analytics, a company built around commercial software and support for the popular R statistical computing project. The open source R project is hugely popular among data… Read more »
The second-annual Structure Data Awards are here, where Gigaom picks the most-interesting and most-promising data startups that launched in the previous year. The winners, which range from a non-profit data science… Read more »
The data team at is opening sourcing some of the tools it uses to analyze data stored in Hadoop. The overall open source project is called Surus, and it focuses on… Read more »
Hampton Creek, a San Francisco startup that uses advanced data analysis to develop eco-conscious, egg-free food products, has raised a $90 million series C round of venture from a collection of big-name… Read more »