O’Reilly Media released the results of its second-annual data science salary survey on Thursday (available for free download here), and the results were not too surprising. Essentially, it shows that people… Read more »
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as “an artificial intelligence for data science.” Read more »
Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt spoke with Gigaom about how important data science and cloud computing are to the company’s business, as well as why the internet is the perfect… Read more »
An education startup called Galvanize, which focuses on tech workers and entrepreneurs, has acquired a San Francisco company called Zipfian Academy that offers a 12-week program in data science. Zipfian’s instructors… Read more »
While web companies are building massive-scale data warehouses on top of Hadoop and analyzing data in every manner under the sun, Lockheed Martin is trying to help its government systems embrace… Read more »
A Mountain View, California, startup called Waterline Data Science has raised $7 million from Menlo Ventures and Sigma West for its software that helps users make more sense of data stored… Read more »
Provo, Utah–based sales automation company InsideSales has always been interested in applying data analysis to mountains of sales data. After delivering on this mission last year, the company is now ramping… Read more »
Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping… Read more »
A mixture of big data, improved algorithms, increasingly cheaper storage, and cloud-hosted options has fueled a surge in new data mining and machine learning products. Read more »