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Oracle’s Big Data appliance

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:30:04 +0000

Oracle has just announced their Big Data Appliance in this press release. There’s some NoSQL stuff in there related to Oracle’s ownership of Berkeley DB. There’s some Hadoop stuff in there. And there’s some R stuff too.

Check out the post on the O’Reilly radar blog for more info.

Data Scientist: the hottest job

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:47:53 +0000

AOL has a new article on their job board about the Data Scientist, calling the role “the hottest job you haven’t heard of.” While it may be a bit of a buzzword, the idea has been around for a while. Here are a few other references to the term Data Scientist or Data Science…

Data scientist: The hot new gig in tech – Fortune – September 2011
EMC Data Scientist Summit
What is Data Science – O’Reilly Media – June 2010
Rise of the Data Scientist – FlowingData – June 2009

IBM to acquire Netezza

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:09:58 +0000

IBM has just announce they intend to purchase Netezza. Check out the press release.

And check out DBMS2 and Techcrunch for some comments.

How heavy is the internet?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:52 +0000

Lots of tech companies are known for the interesting interview questions they ask new job candidates. This is definitely one of the questions that could be posed. CNet UK estimates the combined weight of all the pcs, servers, smartphones, and other hardware that make up the internet. It’s a big number.

And another post on interview test… This article proposes that the best interview test is to simply watch someone cross the street.

Likelihood of coded CA veto message

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:01:22 +0000

A recent veto by CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger contained an obscenity spelled out by the first letter in each line of the message. Was this a pure coincidence or was the message specifically written this way? The Wall Street Journal takes a look.

The numbers behind a new craps record

Sun, 31 May 2009 23:28:38 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a woman in Atlantic City has broken a record playing craps by rolling the dice 154 consecutive times in one single turn. What are the odds of something like this happening? It turns out that it’s about 1 in 5.3 billion. Check out the full story of the analysis behind the record.

US government launches data website

Fri, 22 May 2009 01:44:18 +0000

Today marks the official launch of Data.Gov, a website designed to share government information (economics, healthcare, environment, etc.) with citizens.

Here’s the official announcement from the White House Blog.

Analytics Career Newsletter

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:21:52 +0000

IQ Workforce offers a bi-monthly email that includes our newest web/marketing analytics career opportunities nationally, industry resources and selected blog entries from our network of subscribers.