This week, Dataconomy will be covering the events, meetups and talks around the world for Big Data Week. Below are the events happening in your city today! May 5, 2014 – Nova Scotia Kentville Agricultural Centre Seminar Series The Kentville Agricultural Centre Seminar Series is presented to increase awareness of research

May 7, 2014 – London Big Data and NoSQL: the cross-over As part of Big Data Week London NoSQL is hosting a meet-up will – we’ll be exploring three key points in which big data and NoSQL cross-over. May 7, 2014 – Nova Scotia Lunch n’ Learn in Cape Breton An informal

Remi Mollicone is the Chairman of CFAR-m. CFAR-m is an original method of aggregation based on neural networks which can summarize with objectivity, the information contained in a large number of complex variables. CFAR-m solves the major problem of fixing the subjective importance of each variable in the aggregation (It avoids

Dataconomy published an article earlier this month, where Taha Yasseri outlined his research on predicting movie box office success based on Wikipedia activity data. Taha’s research is not only unique but also groundbreaking. He was able to predict box office revenues with an overall accuracy of 77 percent, which is

The Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 sought arguments supporting their position against the wealthiest 1 percent, but nowhere could such data be found. Until now. Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” provides a sweeping account of rising inequality, based on 15 years of empirical research conducted with

Professionals working in the tech sector – and especially those working with big data – have seen their salaries increase once again, this year by almost three percent, to $87,811 from $86,619 the year before.  According to employment researcher Dice Tech, 45% of individuals surveyed reported receiving a merit pay

IDC Financial Insights released a report recently, “Best Practices: IDC Maturity Model Benchmark – Big Data and Analytics”, which aims to help financial institutions monitor their level of maturity in big data and analytics (BDA) against market and industry benchmarks. The report was created for institutions to use the IDC

SAN FRANCISCO – April 22, 2014 – Jaspersoft, the Intelligence Inside applications and business processes, today announced that it has been recognized by Info-Tech Research Group, a leading provider of IT research and advice, as a “Champion” and the “Value Award” winner in the Mid-Market Business Intelligence industry. The February 2014

According to research conducted by Capgemini, the lack of consumer analytics in commercial banks is proving to be a large impediment to their growth and success. The research shows that banks applying analytics to customer data have a four-percentage point lead in market share over banks that do not, and

Frrole, a Bangalore-based startup specialising in Twitter analytics has raised close to a quarter of a million dollars in a round of Angel funding.  Frrole is one of several Indian startups that are now starting to grow and expand globally, in this case aided by crowd-funding platform LetsVenture, aimed at