A Palo Alto startup called MetaMind launched on Friday promising to help enterprises use deep learning to analyze their images, text and other data. The company has raised $8 million from Khosla… Read more »
Despite the fact that our ability to track and measure almost every aspect of user traffic has never been stronger, there has been a strange gap in our knowledge for some… Read more »
O’Reilly Media released the results of its second-annual data science salary survey on Thursday (available for free download here), and the results were not too surprising. Essentially, it shows that people… Read more »
After initially mapping 8 million flood-related tweets throughout the region over the past couple years as part of a Twitter Data Grant, the University of Wollongong and a local emergency agency have developed a project called… Read more »
The Paul G. Allen Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $5.7 million in grants to five projects that aim to teach machines to understand what they see and read… Read more »
Apache Drill has graduated to Top-Level Project status. Is it merely ready for primetime or will it succeed there? And does the Big Data world need another SQL-on-Hadoop engine? Read more »
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as “an artificial intelligence for data science.” Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has priced its initial public offering at between $12 and $14 a share, according to an updated S-1 form the company filed with the SEC on Monday. Read more »
Narrative Science, a startup that specializes in generating readable text from multiple data sources, plans to announce on Friday that it closed a $10 million funding round. Read more »
A number of large websites that use the Gigya social-login and commenting service were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday, using a vulnerability in the company’s DNS settings at… Read more »