Pinterest announced Wednesday that it has acquired Kosei, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that focuses on machine learning for product recommendations. It’s a smart buy for Pinterest because the company’s path to… Read more »
GraphLab, a Seattle-based startup trying to make machine learning more accessible, has raised an $18.5 million series B round of venture capital and has changed its name to Dato. The company… Read more »
A startup called Lumiata is taking webscale graph analysis like Google and Facebook have perfected and turning it toward personalized health care. As we generate more digital data about research and… Read more »
The streaming music space is heating up thanks to API services that put incredible amounts of music data in the hands of developers who want to build their own streaming services… Read more »
The relevancy-defining, edge-weighting algorithms of Google’s Knowledge Graph, Facebook’s Open Graph and Gravity’s Interest Ontology are closely guarded company secrets. Imagine if that data was available to everyone — it would… Read more »
Machine learning startup Ayasdi has teamed up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as the Texas Medical Center, to help advance data analysis in a variety of complex fields. Read more »
Teradata has upped the capabilities of its Teradata Aster big data platform by adding in a native graph-processing engine called SQL-GR. Not a bad idea considering the increased attention around graph… Read more »
This is a good presentation about Facebook’s graph-processing engine, Giraph, from a big data event held at the company’s Menlo Park campus in early June. The PRISM story kind of took… Read more »
Facebook has detailed its extensive improvements to the open source Apache Giraph graph-processing platform. The project, which is built on top of Hadoop, can now process trillions of connections between people,… Read more »
Whether it’s ethically right or wrong to investigate deep into suspects’ networks of connections, the NSA certainly has the processing power to do it. “Three hops” away isn’t much when you… Read more »