Aug 26

Check out this Techcrunch article about a new charting tool for real-time database reporting, chart.io.

Jul 29

Techcrunch highlights that on-demand business intelligence provider, GoodData, has received an additional $6.5 million in funding from Fidelity Growth Partners Europe.

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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.

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Jun 16

Revolution Analytics has a commercial version of the open sourced R analytics platform. Read more from Flowing Data.

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May 01

Greenplum and Aster Data have launched bigdatanews.com to serve as a collaboration of data warehouse, business intelligence, and analytics industry experts.

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May 01

DBMS2 reports on the launch of mapreduce.org by Aster Data. The site contains lots of good Mapreduce information and links.

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Apr 19

Here’s a post from Joydeep Sen Sarma about the combo of Hbase and Mapreduce.

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Apr 19

Access has come in handy so many times for me when Excel just wouldn’t cut it. Jorge at ExcelCharts.com suggests that knowing how to use Access can may you a better Excel user. I agree. Check out his post for the rest of the details.

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Mar 21

Over at the Process Trends site, they’ve collected a list of R scripts and data file links related to analyzing climate data.

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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.

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