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Can we please stop saying “unstructured” data?
Text. English. Chinese. Multi-structured. Language. Fuzzy. Logs. Hard-to-parse. Rich. Semi-structured. Whatever you want to call data that doesn’t fit neatly into tidy little rows and columns these...
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Precog launches with a plan to simplify analytics on unstructured data
Precog, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup that’s trying to seed the market for advanced analytics on unstructured data, is coming out of beta on Thursday with a line of appliances designed to let everyday...
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HP sets a new (and less-expensive) version of Vertica loose on unstructured data
The folks at HP must have gotten the memos about trends such as NoSQL and the Internet of Things, and they decided to roll the requisite capabilities into the seventh edition of the company’s Vertica...
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Prescriptive analytics: an adaptive crystal ball
Knowledge is power, according to Francis Bacon, but knowing how to use knowledge to create an improved future is even more powerful. The birth of a sophisticated Internet of Things has catapulted...
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Data cleaner Trifacta raises a $25M series C round
Trifacta, a startup focused on getting raw data into shape so data scientists, analysts or whomever can get started analyzing it, has raised $25 million in series C financing. Ignition Partners is a...
View ArticleDon’t bind too early
On Tuesday evening, Gigaom and Collective[i] hosted a dinner in Boston for area executives, with Ray Ozzie as the special guest and speaker. This post isn’t a recap of that dinner, but rather a...
View ArticleWhy the big data startup boom will likely be short-lived
There has been a remarkable flowering of companies over the past year or two, all riding a wave of developer and investor enthusiasm for the loosely defined concept of “big data.” Ovum‘s Tony Baer is...
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Like your data big? How about 5 trillion records?
1010data, the analytics-as-a-service pioneer, says it now hosts more than 5 trillion — yes, trillion with a “t” — records for its customers. If 1010data’s growth over the past year is a microcosm of...
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How the AP got a hold of its big, old data
Holding onto millions of pieces of archived content it still wanted to monetize, the Associated Press turned to a NoSQL database. Specifically, it turned to MarkLogic, a non-relational database...
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As unstructured data heats up, will you need a license to webcrawl?
Cheap computing and the ability to store a lot of data at a low cost have made the concept of big data a big business. But amid the frenzy to gather that data, especially unstructured information...
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