Hadoop is a complex technology, so it helps to have friends in high places when you’re trying to develop it and integrate webscale tooling into enterprise environments. For Hortonworks, that friend… Read more »
Netflix explained how it’s using data analysis to do more than recommend movies in a blog post this week. From optimizing bitrate to churning through user feedback, advanced algorithms are helping… Read more »
In a database market that uses terms like “time to insight,” it’s clear that buyers and vendors are keen on eliminating data-analysis delays. Reducing the time between data being captured in… Read more »
A startup called Ersatz Labs is promising deep learning, delivered via appliance or the cloud, usable by pretty much anybody already familiar with machine learning. It’s the latest attempt to take… Read more »
With a new tool for assigning personality profiles based on Facebook posts, a startup called Five is trying to demonstrate the types of inferences companies can make about consumers. The company… Read more »
Deep learning is all the rage among the tech scene right now, and that’s more a result of its utility than because it sounds cool. Some questioned the feasibility of the… Read more »