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So What If You Have Big Data? Without Data-Driven Processes And Products,...
Editor’s note: John De Goes is co-founder and CEO of Precog, an analytics platform for developers. These days, you don’t have to look hard to find big data. If you’re like many companies I talk to,...
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RelateIQ Launches With $29M From Formation 8, Dustin Moskovitz And More To Be...
Last summer, word started to trickle out about a young, stealth startup called RelateIQ that was rumored to be one of the more ambitious players among the new (and expanding) class of Big Data...
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Senior Facebook, Netflix Scientist Joins Identified To Help It Fix...
This summer, Identified pulled back the curtain on a new artificial intelligence technology, called “SYMAN,” which it developed to help organize and clean the swaths of unstructured professional data...
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Inside Jobs: How Medium’s Product Scientist Brings Data To Life
The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with “founder” or “chief” in their job titles. But the truth is, the people who really make the tech industry...
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Three Marks Of Real Data Science
As a venture investor looking to invest in data-driven companies, telling real data science apart from pseudo science is difficult, but it’s critically important. Investing in a data science...
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DataFox Pushes Its Business Intelligence Service Into Beta
Last week at Disrupt SF, DataFox pitched what it called a “predictive intelligence” service, aimed at bringing a wealth of data concerning corporations — their landmarks, hiring trends, funding and...
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The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond
Editor’s note: Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, which is focused on impactful sustainable energy and information technology investments. The...
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Publisher Schibsted Nabs Twitter Analytics Manager To Be Its Head Of Data...
As traditional publishers continue to look for the best way forward in a rapidly changing media landscape dominated by web giants like Google and Facebook and newer platforms like mobile,...
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YC Grad Yhat Scores $1.5M In Second Seed Round
When Yhat, the company that has developed solutions to help organize data scientist teams, graduated from the Y Combinator, winter 2015 class, the founders had a goal to raise a million dollars to...
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DataCamp Gets $1M Seed Round To Develop Data Science Learning Platform
DataCamp wants to teach data science skills to a generation of people, and it got a million in seed money to continue developing its online data-science learning platform. The round was led by Chris...
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Periscope Data Raises $9.5M Led By DFJ To Build Its “Tableau For Data...
As data scientists continue to become an ever-prominent part of the IT team in any business (not just tech businesses), we’re seeing the emergence of more products and services that are built to cater...
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Apixio’s New Iris Platform Uses Your Doctor’s Notes To Derive Insights
Data science applications for healthcare are finally trying to catch up to the rest of the world, with one new effort coming from six-year-old Apixio in San Mateo, CA. This morning, the company is...
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Why Decision Science Matters
Nearly everyone is familiar with the DirecTV commercials in which actor Rob Lowe and NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tony Romo appear as unflattering alter-egos of themselves — “peaked in high...
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DataScience Raises $22M To Predict Customer Value, Reduce Traffic Deaths And...
DataScience, the data science startup with the name (and URL) that every other data science startup wants, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A. The company says that it uses a...
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How To Stem The Global Shortage Of Data Scientists
Data scientist might be considered the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” with many companies eager to hire data science talent. But 20 years ago the term was barely used, save for a few academic...
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Scala is the new golden child
Tooling in the data science community evolves quickly, and picking the right tool for a job — not to mention a career — can often be divisive. Which tools should you try to master? What is the proper...
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NSF dedicates $35 million to improving software used in science and education
Big data is more important than ever in just about every scientific discipline — and the data is bigger than ever, too. To help manage that data and get it into the hands of scientists and students,...
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How data science fights modern insider threats
Insider threats are the biggest cybersecurity threats to firms, organizations and government agencies. This is something you hear a lot at security conference keynotes and read about in data breach...
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Responding to the demand for reliable data collection in Africa, mSurvey...
mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, has raised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom,...
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Student projects leapfrog governments and industry in ‘Data Science for...
Big data is hardly new at this point — nor has it wrought anywhere near its potential effects on many companies and institutions insulated by inertia and red tape. A summer program at the University...
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