The New York Times has a new online tool and Twitter feed that analyzes every fourth down in every game and gives its analysis in real time. Fans, commentators and even… Read more »
This post from the New York Times’ Open blog talks about the architecture and algorithms underpinning its content-personalization engine. Its experience speaks to some larger trends around companies moving from batch… Read more »
A new study shows that the BBC and the New York Times have the most reach and influence on Twitter among news organizations. The findings are just a taste of what… Read more »
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte and exabyte range — that are requiring an entirely new… Read more »
Over on The New York Times’ Bits blog, Steve Lohr writes about a topic frequently covered here on GigaOM Pro; big data. He goes on to connect the processing of big… Read more »
In all the fuss surrounding HP’s change of CEO, discussion of the previous incumbent’s decision to acquire Cambridge-based Autonomy for $10.3 billion has taken something of a back seat. Quentin Hardy… Read more »
On Tuesday, I wrote about the importance of data. Yesterday, Citrix founder Edward Iacobucci announced a Virtual Index Architecture (VIA), the first output of his new VirtualWorks Group. VIA is “a… Read more »
In 2011, we’re seeing extraordinary growth of big data in these areas along three dimensions: volume, complexity and speed. Additionally, data science is contributing significantly to operational efficiencies in these sectors… Read more »
A pair of New York Times researchers have been poring over the newspaper’s data, looking for a way to understand the way influence plays out online. The work shows how organizations… Read more »
The goal of this report is to explain the role of NoSQL databases within the context of the database market in general, to provide information regarding primary vendors and projects, to… Read more »