Even Booz Allen Hamilton has dollar signs in its eyes when it thinks about sports data. The company is getting started on a new venture to apply its data science mastery… Read more »
As a new study about sex trafficking during the Super Bowl highlights, advances in data analysis are underpinning some powerful new ways of tackling very tough problems. Among all the stones… Read more »
One blog post says, “Not only is Data Science not a science, it’s not even a good job prospect.” Another says, “here will always be a place for those who excel… Read more »
This year’s Structure Data conference has a few new wrinkles, including a trivia night at a nearby pub and a series of Data Lab talks about using new types of data… Read more »
A Huntsville, Ala., company is moving from the machine-to-machine world into cloud platforms and big data. Here’s how it did it and how it thinks its work could actually end up… Read more »
An Irish startup called Aylien is getting into the natural-language processing space with a set of APIs for text analysis. It’s not the first company to do this, but it might… Read more »
Uber has published a blog post explaining the difference that median income makes on the company’s service in Chicago. Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder here, but the… Read more »
Sqrrl co-founder and VP of business development Ely Kahn came on the Structure Show this week to break down the state of cybersecurity and the cutting edge of data analysis within… Read more »
Apache Spark, an in-memory data-processing framework, is now a top-level Apache project. That’s an important step for Spark’s stability as it increasingly replaces MapReduce in next-generation big data applications. Read more »
Although techniques such as machine learning are taking off in the e-commerce and retail spaces as a way to display better recommendations or optimize product presentation, the smart money is still… Read more »