Month: July 2012

Internet2: Big Pipes for Big Data

Summary: 'Internet2,' the high-capacity network designed to support collaborative ventures between universities,…

JoeMcKendrick
4 Min Read

Private Clouds Are Here to Stay—Especially for Data Warehousing

Some cloud experts are proclaiming private clouds “are false clouds”, or that…

paulbarsch
6 Min Read

Forecasting Olympic Medals

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London are just around the corner, and…

mvgilliland
6 Min Read

Because It’s the Weekend: Curiosity’s Landing on Mars [VIDEO]

In 2004, NASA sent two rovers to Mars. Each rover had scheduled…

DavidMSmith
2 Min Read

Applications of R at Google

At a talk I saw at the useR!2012 conference last month, Googler…

DavidMSmith
3 Min Read

The Objectives of Forecasting: Narrow and Broad

Free The BFDThe BFD has been on a short hiatus, fending off…

mvgilliland
3 Min Read

Big Data Holds Big Promise for Government

Much of the focus around using business analytics to interpret big data…

Brett Stupakevich
5 Min Read

The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager

Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great…

gilpress
5 Min Read

A Text Analytics Question

How many survey questions are needed?

TomAnderson
1 Min Read