Another startup, PredictionIO, is trying to make machine learning child’s play (or at least developer’s play) with open source source software it says can have programmers launching recommendation engines and other… Read more »
Ever since Cloudera’s October, 2012 announcement of its Impala SQL-on-Hadoop engine, it seems the database industry has been obsessed with fusing the SQL query language with Hadoop. These various pairings have… Read more »
A Seattle-based machine learning startup called GraphLab is releasing the first official version of its software, which the company hopes can democratize an historically difficult space. Called Create, the software is… Read more »
Researchers at the University of Washington, Tacoma, have built a machine learning system capable of predicting readmission risks for congestive heart failure patients. It has shown good results in a pilot… Read more »
Moves like SolarCity’s vertical integration of rooftop solar signal an industry that has actually matured. Meanwhile major players hinted at their respective smart-home strategies. Read more »
If businesses are to extract value from years of history and corporate memory, they must store data in a fully accessible database or data store with access methods that are standards-based… Read more »
Syapse, a startup trying to build something akin to Google’s Knowledge Graph for medical data, has raised a $10 million series B round of venture capital from Safeguard Scientific and existing… Read more »
Implementing a contiguous, enterprise-wide data storage architecture can be used to break down the barriers and relieve applications of the burden of data silos. Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom Research curator for social, notes that ‘the fear of big data’ is growing. He attributes some of the backlash Facebook has suffered for… Read more »
Facebook’s most recent episode of stepping well past the painted lines and wandering around in no-man’s land continues to reverberate, and probably won’t quiet down quickly. In case you’ve been living… Read more »