Video: SFU in Canada Starting Big Data Masters Program
The demand is already there, so how do we begin to fill the demand for tomorrow’s data scientists? In this video, Dr. Alexandra Fedorova from Simon Fraser University in Canada describes their new...
View ArticleVideo: Brave New Hadoop
In this video, Ph.D candidate Jerome Mitchell from Indiana University details the benefits of Hadoop as well as offering a hands-on session illustrating its uses. You can also see Part 2, Part 3, Part...
View ArticleBig Data Freeway Under Construction in San Diego
If you’ve ever driven the freeways of Southern California, you might wonder about the metaphor chosen to describe the new high speed, Big Data network announced this week by the University of...
View ArticleBig Data and the Humanities
Last week Columbia University held a daylong symposium titled “From Big Data to Big Ideas,” as part of the launch of its Institute for Data Science and Engineering. Despite the emphasis on technology...
View ArticleIs All Science Becoming Data Science?
Over at Science Magazine, Vijaysree Venkatraman writes that data-driven discovery may soon become the norm in science and that learning to code and becoming comfortable with large datasets may soon be...
View ArticleTACC’s Hadoop Cluster Makes Big Data Research More Accessible
Over at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Aaron Dubrow writes that researchers are using a specialized cluster at TACC to do experimental Hadoop-style studies on a current production system. This...
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