Here’s an article from Kurt Schrader’s blog about his experience as an engineering manager working to build a data science team at a startup. Kurt is VP of engineering at Intent Media.
Jan 29
Normally lists are the top 5 best, but here’s a post from GigaOm with a list of 5 low-profile startups that could change big data.
Jan 10
If you’ve ever wondered which neighborhood has more men or women on a given night or where all the people from different parts of town are going, Uber might have it figured out. They’ve used data from their cab service to map people flows in San Francisco.
Nov 17
Roger Craig holds the Jeopardy record for single game money winnings. How did he do it? Well part of his success comes from an app he built to help him train.
And here’s a TheNextWeb article with more info.
Nov 09
Here’s a recap from a Last.fm intern about some of the things learned on the job dealing with lots of data.
Nov 05
Nov 04
We’ve written about Kaggle before, but here’s a new post from the New York Times about the site and some new funding they’ve received.
Oct 29
ReportGrid offers an API to report or visualize anything running as SaaS. There are some examples of what ReportGrid’s Visualization Engine can do. Prices start at $50 per month. Check out the
TheNextWeb article.
