SETI (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) is fairly well-known for their utilization of distributed computing. For decades, they have allowed the home computer user to donate time and computing resources to analyze radio signals hoping to identify signs of extra-terrestrials. This article from O’Reilly Radar details some of the changes SETI has made.
Jun 27
There are some analytics products that receive high degrees of notoriety. Palantir is not one of them. Primarily used by the government, their technology allows non-technical users to see relationships between disparate data. Until this Techcrunch article I hadn’t heard of them at all.
Feb 21
Part of BMW Oracle’s upper hand in the most recent America’s Cup may have come from the use of data mining. The boat and all its sensors can generate 2,500 data points 10 times per second. Check out this article from the Oracle Data Mining and Analytics blog to read the rest.
Oct 24
This Boing Boing article questions whether the US military may be gathering data from unsuspecting teens and using it for data mining exercises to improve recruiting.
Aug 10
With the first Netflix Prize coming to a conclusion, Netflix has announced Netflix Prize 2. This one will be shorter than the first with prizes being awarded after 6 and 18 months. Here’s an article from O’Reilly with more info.
May 09
In the past, most executives have viewed data management as a necessary but boring cost they must tolerate. The newest DM News Data Management Survey indicates that this is starting to change.
Here’s the article. And here’s the full survey.
Apr 15
Pig is an open source platform for analyzing large data sets that works in conjunction with Hadoop clusters and Map-Reduce jobs. They recently announced their 0.20 release featuring a 5X performance gain over the previous version. Check out the details.
Mar 25
Rexer Analytics is just about to close their data mining survey and could use your input. The link from the Oracle data mining blog will give you the code you need to participate. After the survey, you can access previous versions of the compiled survey results.
