Jan 20 : General Topic

Big Data Analytics Trends for 2012 (allthingsd.com)

Over the last several years, there has been a massive surge of interest in Big Data Analytics and the groundbreaking opportunities it provides for enterprise information management and decision making. Big Data Analytics is no longer a specialized solution for cutting-edge technology companies — it is evolving into a viable, cost-effective way to store and analyze large volumes of data across many industries. But how will this translate to adoption of these new technologies?  read more

Jan 17 : Visualization Startup

Big data company Splunk files for IPO (gigaom.com)

Splunk filed for an IPO on Friday to raise up to $125 million in the first public offering launched by a big data player. Splunk is important because its search, analytics and visualization technologies address the sweet spot of demand between the reams of big data generated by the second and the ability to parse and display that data in a meaningful way. After downloading the tool and connecting it to the relevant feeds, a mere mortal — not a data scientist — can work with Splunk to put that data into an easily understood visual format. read more

Jan 16 : General Topic

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What is big data? (oreilly.com)

Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn't fit the structures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. read more