Data Do Rag 1

How Climate Corp. is pitting big data against Mother Nature

When your business is to insure farmers against the effects of bad weather, you’d better have some seriously accurate data on your side. little brother...

The Climate Corporation Gets $50M More for Weather Insurance 

Silicon Valley venture capitalists like to talk about how what they really want to do is fund companies that don’t just build trendy social apps or solve…

Founder Stories: Climate Corp’s David Friedberg On Why Leading A Company Is Like Playing Poker

Sit down with David Friedberg of The Climate Corporation.

Moving Hadoop Beyond Batch with Apache YARN

Apache Hadoop 2.0 continues to make its way through the open source community process at the Apache Software Foundation and is getting closer to being declared…

Benchmarking and Stress Testing an Hadoop Cluster with TeraSort·

In this article introduced are some of the benchmarking and testing tools that are included in the Apache Hadoop distribution... 

Dr Valiant's Maxim Computer science is more about humans than about computers. ProbablyApproximatelyCorrect happens...

IBM Watson

What is Cognitive Computing? It’s more than just Watson ... 

N.S.A. Gathers Data
... on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens ... 

When Meta Met Data
What's the Meta wid yer data?