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Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an ...Full Article
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and ...Full Article
NSA Looks to IT Industry to Harden Vulnerable U.S. Nets
U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, are increasingly turning to commercial solutions in their efforts to head off the alarming number of cyber attacks that culminated in ...Full Article
Overcoming the 3 Key Barriers to Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers exciting possibilities for transforming industrial automation. Having the ability to capture data at the industrial edge—from the manufacturing shop floor to natural ...Full Article
New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
Ladies and gentlemen, start your clusters. A new data analytics and machine learning benchmark has been released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) measuring real-world performance of Hadoop-based ...Full Article
Itseez Acquisition to Help Drive Intel’s Vision for Driverless Vehicles, IoT
In breaking the news of a massive layoff last month, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stated that the company is transforming itself from a PC and server company to one ...Full Article
GPU-based Deep Learning Enhances Drug Discovery Says Startup
Sifting through the avalanche of life sciences (LS) data for insight is an interesting and important challenge. Many approaches are used with varying degrees of success. Recently, improved hardware ...Full Article
Hospitals Take ‘Measured’ Approach to Cloud
Under heavy ransomware attack, hospitals are expected to boost IT spending over the next several years with a particular emphasis on hybrid cloud services like disaster recovery as hackers ...Full Article
An Insider’s Guide to Building a Cloud-based FinServ Big Data Analytics Shared Service
Even if you’ve never lived through a data analytics development project at a financial services organization, you know it’s a complicated undertaking. But you may not know just how ...Full Article
Big Data at Netflix: Testing, Testing, Testing…
Netflix is a company riding, you could say driving, the streaming internet video wave. Much of that wave is founded on Open Source big data analytics in the cloud ...Full Article
