Internet2: Big Pipes for Big Data
Summary: 'Internet2,' the high-capacity network designed to support collaborative ventures between universities, government research agencies and businesses, is ready to…
Private Clouds Are Here to Stay—Especially for Data Warehousing
Some cloud experts are proclaiming private clouds “are false clouds”, or that the term was conveniently conjured to support vendor…
Forecasting Olympic Medals
The 2012 Summer Olympics in London are just around the corner, and it's sure to be an exciting time for…
Because It’s the Weekend: Curiosity’s Landing on Mars [VIDEO]
In 2004, NASA sent two rovers to Mars. Each rover had scheduled a three-month mission to explore the surface, after…
Applications of R at Google
At a talk I saw at the useR!2012 conference last month, Googler Karl Millar estimated that there are at least…
The Objectives of Forecasting: Narrow and Broad
Free The BFDThe BFD has been on a short hiatus, fending off potential litigation with the organizing committee of a…
Big Data Holds Big Promise for Government
Much of the focus around using business analytics to interpret big data has revolved around the private sector, as companies…
The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager
Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great start yesterday with a presentation titled “The Scientist,…
