Follow @DataconomyMedia We caught up with Laurent Schüller, Head of Brand Management at Kreditech, to discuss innovations in the personal finance market and Kreditech's plan for ...

As data science becomes more mainstream, it appears that Python is muscling out R as the programming language of choice. ...

Dr. Taha Yasseri is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His main research focus is on ...

Google announced that Stackdriver, a cloud monitoring system, will be joining their team to deploy its services on Google‘s Cloud ...

Twitter started as a social version of text messaging. The limit on a text message is 160, which Twitter truncated ...

Remi Mollicone is the Chairman of CFAR-m. CFAR-m is an original method of aggregation based on neural networks which can ...

HP announced that HP Helion, its open-source cloud computing services portfolio, will become available in over 20 countries around the ...

EVENTS HAPPENING ON THE 8th MAY May 8, 2014 – Budapest Big Data Budapest @ 500 We are celebrating our 500th ...

Today we feature Alibaba's use of big data. The company filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and is expected to ...

Dr. Kostas Tzoumas is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Berlin . Kostas is currently co-leading the Stratosphere project, that develops ...

HP presented a new product, called Facility-as-a-Service, which provides a variety of modular data center solutions under five year service ...

Hadoop could be one of the biggest IT markets in recent history, as MapR announced on Monday that first quarter ...

A facility just outside Dallas will be Wikimedia’s new data center, as the organization chose Carrollton, Texas-based CyrusOne, as its ...

The United States gave the world the iPhone, China gave it the HiPhone. China has created knockoffs of almost every ...

Hadoop is designed to make storing and processing large amounts of data affordable. It does this in two ways: Through ...

Simpson's paradox happens when behaviour at the group level is different from the behaviour of its subgroups. For example, consider ...

Yesterday we attended an event at Acadia University where Dr. Danny Silver gave a presentation on Data Analytics and Data ...

Previously we had a look at how data-centric approaches were used in baseball and cricket to identify undervalued players. Today ...

According to statistics collected by the job site Dice.com, the demand for data processing skills – NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, ...

Twitter has a credibility problem. Fake information and photos proliferate the platform, especially after a natural disaster. For example, Hurricane ...

7th May -- Official London Conference, University College London Attend University College London on 7th May where the Big Data Week London team ...

Last week, we had a quick look at Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and data-driven research that highlights ...

Industry experts will descend onto 30 cities from across the world to discuss topics surrounding Big Data this week. Speakers ...

Google Translate is an excellent example of the foray of machine learning into languages. Can we extend this notion into ...

This week, we will look at the three best articles that speak to the power of big data. There is ...

EVENTS HAPPENING ON THE 6th MAY May 6, 2014 – Chicago The State of Illinois Presents: Budgeting for Results and Paying ...

Rangespan, a London-based startup providing back office services to online retailers, announced on Friday that it has been acquired by ...

Sandlerresearch.org, an online store for research papers, published a report on the big data services market spanning from 2014-2018, where it predicts ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a project called DEFT (Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text), ...

Big Data Week kicks off in Berlin with Data meets Nice People. The event will be held at the Wooga ...

In a special event held at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, Oracle President Mark Hurd ...

A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Machine Learning Department is working on a system to protect computer ...

Big Data Week kicks off today! There are over 180 events taking place across 25+ cities, ranging from speaker events ...

This week, Dataconomy will be covering the events, meetups and talks around the world for Big Data Week. Below are ...

May 7, 2014 – London Big Data and NoSQL: the cross-over As part of Big Data Week London NoSQL is hosting ...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the India cloud-computing market is expected to grow from its $688 million value ...

Remi Mollicone is the Chairman of CFAR-m. CFAR-m is an original method of aggregation based on neural networks which can ...

Dataconomy published an article earlier this month, where Taha Yasseri outlined his research on predicting movie box office success based ...

The World Bank Group and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), are trying to harness big data’s ...

In emerging markets that are not highly digitalized, small data has largely become the information backbone for data analytics. Paper-based ...

Hadoop store software company Cloudera and leading NoSQL database MongoDB have announced a strategic all-round product partnership to better serve ...

SAN DIEGO, CA - Dealstruck, Inc, selected as the exclusive crowdlending partner to demo at FinovateSpring 2014, April 29-30 in San ...

Thank you for attending Hadoop Summit Thank you for joining us at the second Hadoop Summit Europe. The event was ...

The Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 sought arguments supporting their position against the wealthiest 1 percent, but nowhere could ...

Tibeco announced yesterday that it has acquired Jaspersoft, a company specialising in open source business intelligence tools, for $185 million. The ...

According to the latest research from Dell, big data projects have made a significant shift from their enterprise roots to ...

InsideSales.com, a company specialising in could-based sales acceleration technology, announced today that it has raised $100 million in series C ...

Microsoft announced last week that it would be expanding its data center operations in Wyoming. The tech giant will invest ...

According to an article in the LA Times, Verizon Wireless will be “enhancing” its Relevant Mobile Advertising by monitoring customer ...