GigaomIn medicine, data Darwinism becomes playing god
It’s easy enough to quantify our lives with data and score people against the models we build, but sometimes — like in the case of organ transplants — deciding what scores… Read more »
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It’s easy enough to quantify our lives with data and score people against the models we build, but sometimes — like in the case of organ transplants — deciding what scores… Read more »
The choices are getting a lot better for businesses that want out-of-the-box functionality for machine learning, predictive analytics and general data science. Prepackaged software might not make your company into Google,… Read more »
WalmartLabs has acquired a predictive analytics startup called Inkiru to bolster its ability to create better customer experiences through data. The division of Walmart was created in 2011 on a foundation… Read more »
Sure, a lot of data scientists spend their days trying to optimize ads or movie recommendations, but a growing number are spending their free time tackling bigger causes. Read more »
Machine learning service BigML and open data service Quandl are collaborating to make it easy to build predictive models around economic data. More importantly, though, is how easy Quandl makes it… Read more »
Startup WibiData has raised another $15 million and wants to turn the lessons it has learned in the field into generic software that can let anyone build predictive applications on Hadoop. Read more »
Cascading creator Concurrent has developed a new open source tool called Pattern for running machine learning models on Hadoop clusters. When combined with its SQL tool called Lingual, users can move… Read more »
Analytics provider Alteryx has raised another $12 million as it tries to make statistical analysis a more consumer-friendly experience. Read more »
When it comes to forming a bond with customers, one expert suggests using big data to help them form a bond with each other. Read more »
The FBI has amassed terabytes of data from sources near the terrorist attack that occured during the Boston Marathon. This raises a question about the role crowdsourcing could play in solving… Read more »