How Vertica Was the Star of the Obama Campaign, and Other Revelations
One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica. The 2012 Obama […]
Data Supply Chain
Cheezburger Avoids BI ‘Fails’ By Sipping Data Slowly
Getting value from big data is everyone’s problem, even LOLCats. If you think staring at LOLCats or the FAIL Blog is wasting time at work, try telling that to Notorious […]
Why Only Fully Equipped Citizen Data Scientists Will Succeed
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from data, just like Hilary Mason and DJ Patil? Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from […]
I Sure Hope More than Hadoop Crosses the Chasm
Hadoop vendors are thrilled with the uptake of Hadoop by mainstream IT buyers, it won’t be good news for the businesses buying the technology unless more than just Hadoop crosses […]