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…

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