Zapaday is building a tool that scans over 4,000 sources to identify context indicating some future event. They then organize this information into calendar format. Check out their video:
And if that’s of interest to you, you will also want to check out Recorded Future.
Square, the company that offers a hardware plugin for collecting credit card payments from your Iphone or Ipad, has just released a new tool for displaying time series. They call it Cube.
Check out FlowingData for more info.
Here’s a video from Google about their search algorithm and here’s a Techcrunch article with more info.
Here are the videos from the Giga Om Big Data Conference that just concluded in New York. One of the talks featured Greenplum founder Luke Lonergan. And here’s another talking about Open Source’s role in big data.
I’m interested to hear how this conference compared to the O’Reilly Strata Conference.
Scobleizer brings us this interview with Jack Levin talking about using NVidia GPU cards in their Hadoop environment and getting 30X improvement in search performance.
The Jeopardy match between IBM’s Watson computer and Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter is over, and Watson has won. Here are a few videos to recap the feat.
HotPads.com is a new tool for shopping for houses and they do so in a visual way. And here’s the FastCompany article.
Instead of each site you visit having its own recommendation algorithms, Inveni has come up with a different approach. They allow you to create an Inveni profile and then share it with sites and advertisers as you like. They are starting with movie and tv recommendations
Here is the Techcrunch article and a video.
Check out LinkedIn’s new visualization tool, InMap, that shows you an interactive view of how all your contacts are related. Here’s a post on the LinkedIn blog with more info. And here’s DJ Patil, Chief Scientist, introducing the tool.
Here’s the Youtube playlist of the Strata Conference keynote speeches 45 videos in all.
And here’s the link to many of the slide decks.
And here’s a good recap of the StrataConf event.
