Analytics Team » analytics http://www.analyticsteam.com Predictive analytics, data mining, business intelligence and more. Information useful to analysts and data people of all kinds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:07:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ebay’s big data http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/02/01/ebays-big-data/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/02/01/ebays-big-data/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:05:21 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1369 Here’s a GigaOm article with all the details of what Ebay’s up to related to “big data.”

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/02/01/ebays-big-data/feed/ 0 Building a data science team at a startup http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/30/building-a-data-science-team-at-a-startup/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/30/building-a-data-science-team-at-a-startup/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:02:28 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1349 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.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/30/building-a-data-science-team-at-a-startup/feed/ 0 5 low profile big data startups http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/29/5-low-profile-big-data-startups/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/29/5-low-profile-big-data-startups/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:02:52 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1351 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.

  1. Bloomreach
  2. Continuuity
  3. Odiago
  4. Platfora
  5. Skytree
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  1. Platfora
  2. DataStax
  3. Visual.ly
  4. Domo
  5. Metamarkets
]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/11/5-big-data-startups/feed/ 0 Uber cab data used to map San Francisco people flow http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/10/uber-cab-data-used-to-map-san-francisco-people-flow/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/10/uber-cab-data-used-to-map-san-francisco-people-flow/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:24:30 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1342 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.

uber san francisco visualization

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2012/01/10/uber-cab-data-used-to-map-san-francisco-people-flow/feed/ 0 Jeopardy player builds app to measure improvement http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/17/jeopardy-player-builds-app-to-measure-improvement/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/17/jeopardy-player-builds-app-to-measure-improvement/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:24:03 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1321 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.

Roger Craig – Knowledge Tracking from Steven Dean on Vimeo.


And here’s a TheNextWeb article with more info.

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Also check out the VentureBeat article

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]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/09/last-fm-intern-report-on-data/feed/ 0 World’s most powerful data scientists http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/05/worlds-most-powerful-data-scientists/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/05/worlds-most-powerful-data-scientists/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:59:01 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1304 Tim O’Reilly has created a list for Forbes of the 7 most powerful data scientists…

  1. Eric Schmidt
  2. Jeff Hammerbacher, DJ Patil
  3. Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig
  4. Elizabeth Warren
  5. Todd Park
  6. Alex “Sandy” Pentland
  7. Hod Lipson, Michael Schmidt
      8. Check out more at CTOVision.

      ]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/05/worlds-most-powerful-data-scientists/feed/ 0 A site to test your analytics skills (and win money) http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/04/a-site-to-test-your-analytics-skills-and-win-money/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/11/04/a-site-to-test-your-analytics-skills-and-win-money/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:02:13 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1306 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.

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