ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops,… Read more »
Alteryx has raised $60 million to help expand its fast-growing business, which straddles the middle ground between Excel and SPSS by trying to turn data blending and predictive modeling into self-service experiences. Read more »
With 70,000 machines available in the cloud and on volunteer computers around the globe, Datafiniti claims that its customers are scanning 648 million URLs each month. 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 »
LinkedIn’s various data-tracking features, like generating who has recently viewed a user’s profile and keeping tabs on which people are following particular companies, are all fueled by the new data system… Read more »
A new startup wants to speed up the process of analyzing data, and the costs of storing it, by housing it in satellites. The idea is out there, but its founder… 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 »
Twitter recently open sourced an algorithm designed to ease the process of running recommendation engines at large scale. Called DIMSUM, the algorithm pre-processes pairs of possible matches so the other algorithms… Read more »
MemSQL has secured an investment from intelligence-focused venture capital fund In-Q-Tel, and has released a new version of its database software that includes automatic replication of data across data centers. Read more »