Analytics Team » databases 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 A company built on free data http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/10/11/a-company-built-on-free-data/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/10/11/a-company-built-on-free-data/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:05:19 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1190 The New York Times Technology blog article features a company founded by a couple ex-Googlers called Climate Corporation. Their company is built on making use of the free data published by the National Weather Service. They started by using the data to sell insurance to companies dependent on the weather like farmers and ski resorts. They’ve expanded their data sources and now focus more on the agriculture market.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/10/11/a-company-built-on-free-data/feed/ 0 DataStax gets $11M for NoSQL http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/22/datastax-gets-11m-for-nosql/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/22/datastax-gets-11m-for-nosql/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:54:27 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1057 DataStax has just announced an $11M investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. DataStax makes products to use with NoSQL database, Cassandra. If you’re wondering what NoSQL is, check out NoSQL-Database.org. Check out the VentureBeat article for more about the investment.

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]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/21/neo-raises-money-for-nosql/feed/ 0 NSA contributes to Hadoop http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/05/nsa-contributes-to-hadoop/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/05/nsa-contributes-to-hadoop/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:22:00 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=1017 The National Security Agency (NSA) has just made a new submission to the Apache Foundation.  It’s called Accumulo, and it is a key/value data store based on the BigTable paper.  It runs on top of Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/09/05/nsa-contributes-to-hadoop/feed/ 0 Global temperature data now available for download http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/07/28/global-temperature-data-now-available-for-download/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/07/28/global-temperature-data-now-available-for-download/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:51:42 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=971 The raw global temperature data set from the World Meteorological Organization is now available for download. BBC article.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/07/28/global-temperature-data-now-available-for-download/feed/ 0 Discussion about structured and unstructured data http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/05/16/discussion-about-structured-and-unstructured-data/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/05/16/discussion-about-structured-and-unstructured-data/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 16:09:27 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=951 When talking about data and the storage of data these days, you’ll often hear the terms “structured” and “unstructured”. Monash Research (DBMS2) has an interesting post on the topic.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/05/16/discussion-about-structured-and-unstructured-data/feed/ 0 Teradata acquires Aster Data http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/03/04/teradata-acquires-aster-data/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/03/04/teradata-acquires-aster-data/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:38:40 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=858 There’s been a lot of consolidation in the database space recently and that continued today with Teradata announcing its acquisition of Aster Data for $263M. Check out the Aster Data press release.

Here’s the recap from DBMS2 and one from Techcrunch.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/03/04/teradata-acquires-aster-data/feed/ 0 HP acquires Vertica http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/02/15/hp-acquires-vertica/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/02/15/hp-acquires-vertica/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:57:25 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=812 There has been lots of consolidation in the database space recently with EMC acquiring Greenplum, IBM acquiring Netezza, and now HP acquires Vertica. Check out the Techcrunch article for the details.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2011/02/15/hp-acquires-vertica/feed/ 0 Old weather from ships’ logs helps predictions http://www.analyticsteam.com/2010/10/17/old-weather-from-ships-logs-helps-predictions/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2010/10/17/old-weather-from-ships-logs-helps-predictions/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:16:56 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=699 There’s a new community data project from Old Weather to data enter information from historical ships’ log books from around the time of World War I to give a better view of climate change and improve climate models.


Old Weather – Getting Started from The Zooniverse on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.analyticsteam.com/2010/10/17/old-weather-from-ships-logs-helps-predictions/feed/ 0 PostgreSQL 9.0 now available http://www.analyticsteam.com/2010/09/21/postgresql-9-0-now-available/ http://www.analyticsteam.com/2010/09/21/postgresql-9-0-now-available/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:05:35 +0000 http://www.analyticsteam.com/?p=689 Check out the release details at the Postgres site.

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