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5 Misconceptions About Visualization
Nathan Yau, the force behind the visual data site Flowingdata.com, wants data flow to be understandable for non-experts. He recently advised departments at the Census Bureau on how to visualize their...
View ArticleVideo: Build Awesome Data Graphics using Plot.io
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q904idCrY80 This video provides a brief explanation of Plot.io’s rendering system, and how you can use it to build novel data visualizations on the fly without having to...
View ArticleVideo: The Beauty in Big Data
In this Ted Talk video, David McCandless turns complex data sets into amazing diagrams that highlight unseen patterns and connections. McCandless suggest that good design is the best way to navigate...
View ArticleVideo: Jer Thorp on the Weight of Data
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6aA5qdCzU In this video, Jer Thorp from the New York Times labs talks about how he creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At...
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Big Data You Can Touch
Steven Overly at the Washington Post writes that a new Startup called Augaroo aims to help companies make sense of Big Data through visualization. The company is developing a product called ZoomData...
View ArticleTableu Software Provides the Big Picture on Big Data
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Ben Rooney writes that Tableu software is making Big Data more accessible by putting sophisticated and powerful data visualization tools into the hands of anyone...
View ArticleVideo: Crunching Big Data on Google BigQuery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Z8J5JvKtY In this video, Google’s Ryan Boyd presents: Crunching Big Data with Google BigQuery. Google BigQuery is a Big Data analysis tool born from an internal...
View ArticleVideo: Big Data Video Analytics – From Big Picture To Reality
In this video, Joe Boissy from 3VR presents: Big Data Video Analytics – From Big Picture To Reality. 3VR, the video intelligence company, enables organizations to search, mine and leverage video to...
View ArticleAyasdi Big Data Startup Delivers Digital Serendipity
Ayasdi today announced that it has received $10.25 million in a Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE. Ayasdi has created the world’s first Insight Discovery platform, a technology...
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Interview: Lessons Learned from Big Data Analytical Innovators
Recently SAS and the MIT Sloan Management Review teamed up to identify and learn more about those companies and individuals that are leading the Big Data analytics revolution – what the researchers...
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MIT Tool Illustrates Your Personal Metadata
César Hidalgo and a team of MIT researchers have launched a new online project to help people visualize their own metadata. The program is called “Immersion.” Once authorized, the program scans every...
View ArticleDemo: Tableau Online Brings Rapid-fire Business Intelligence to the Cloud
In this video, Ellie Fields from Tableau Software demonstrates the company’s new cloud-based offering called Tableau Online. As a SaaS or hosted version of Tableau Server, Tableau Online brings the...
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Plot.ly Startup Does Big Data Visualization in the Cloud
Over at the Montreal Gazzette, Joseph Czikk writes that Plot.ly is a new online platform that allows users to create and collaborate on publication-quality graphs and charts that require large...
View ArticleVisualizing Modern History with the SGI UV Supercomputer
In this video, Kalev Leetaru from the University of Illinois discusses the creation of the first-ever historical mapping and exploration of the fulltext contents of the English-language edition of...
View ArticleSlidecast: Making the Biggest Big Data Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ipPzV-GzA In this slidecast, 1010 Data CEO Sandy Steier presents: Making the Biggest Big Data Easy. The company has just re-launched its web site with a new look and a...
View ArticlePaper: A Map-Reduce-Like System for Emerging Parallel Architectures
Can MapReduce be used as an effective means of processing data-intensive HPC workloads? In his dissertation from Ohio State University, Wei Jiang writes that one first needs to overcome with...
View ArticleYarcData Shows Why Big Data is More than Hadoop
Gartner’s Carl Claunch writes that Big Data involves a much wider and varied set of needs, practices, and technologies than just Hadoop or data warehouses. To meet the needs of graph computing, Cray’s...
View ArticleYarcData Upgrades Big Data Appliance, Goes with Subscription-based Pricing
Today Cray’s YarcData division announced a major upgrade to its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics. With the uRiKA Fall 2012 Release, the company is adding substantial new standards-based...
View ArticleYarcData Announces Finalists for $100K Graph Analytics Challenge
This week YarcData announced the six finalists for the company’s Graph Analytics Challenge. The top six entries for the contest, which features $100,000 in prizes including a $70,000 grand prize for...
View ArticleApplications Due: Global Big Data Conference 2013 Startups Pitch
The Global Big Data Conference is hosting a Startups Pitch on January 28, 2013 in Santa Clara. This event is a great opportunity for startup firms to showcase their products to the world in front of...
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