Carnegie Mellon researchers have created an application that visualizes tabular data and lets users analyze it using hand gestures. It’s not the first attempt to rethink analytics for a mobile world,… Read more »
Forget about how much data a disk can store or whether companies will use Hadoop. The questions for big data going forward are how they’ll use Hadoop, how intelligent our systems… Read more »
Tableau (s data) and Splunk (s splk), two of the more successful (and ubiquitous) data startups turned public companies over the past several years, have partnered on a new connector that… Read more »
Tableau had a huge fourth quarter and year in 2013, nearly doubling its year-over-year revenues for both periods, and putting it on a collision course with its larger competitors in a… Read more »
This a really thoughtful post from Trifacta Co-founder and CEO Joe Hellerstein (who’s clearly ramping up for the big unveil of Trifacta’s product soon) about the transformation of data science skills… Read more »
With $15 million from Kleiner Perkins and Jafco Ventures, Zephyr Health thinks it’s well-suited to help pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers navigate tougher financial times by making better use of… Read more »
The legal profession has undergone a lot of unpleasant changes since the Great Recession struck in 2008. New data-analysis technologies and a new approach to thinking about data could help firms… Read more »
Google’s Transparency Reports get a lot of attention for their data on government action, but less so for their insights into copyright takedown requests. I analyzed nearly 1 million takedown requests… Read more »
Datameer, one of the first companies to offer software for easily analyzing data stored in Hadoop (it lets users use a spreadsheet interface to work with data), has raised a $19… Read more »
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly has released a report highlighting the top screen sizes on which its customers’ readers are consuming news content. Desktops and laptops still dominate overall, but Apple is… Read more »