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“Sick of hearing about Big Data? Get used to it,” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s Nikki Waller this week. Big Data, analytics and data science are big in the news and in the business world and that’s not going to change any time soon. As technology evolves, organizations of all sorts will continue to improve their understanding and use of the data they collect.
This week’s roundup of articles and blog posts brings you data analytics interviews from around the Internet to bring you up to speed on the latest on the topic.
- CMO Interview: ThinkGeek CMO on Customer Analytics and Cross-Company Relationships at CMO: “O’Brien is no stranger to digital, marketing or data, having spent more than 20 years building digital and ecommerce capabilities for large and niche brands. He began his career as an editor for Computer Shopper magazine at a time where the PC enthusiast market was still a relatively new phenomenon, and the Internet was just becoming commercial. Alongside content delivery, the site allowed readers to compare products, acting as a lead generation tool for advertisers and giving O’Brien his first taste of ecommerce.”
- Interview: ParStream Analyzes Billions of Records in Less than a Second at insideBIGDATA: “ParStream is a columnar database with a hybrid in-memory storage and a shared nothing architecture. Based on patented algorithms for indexing and compressing data, Parstream uniquely combines three core features: Analyzing billions of records in sub seconds, continuous fast import with up to 1 million rec/s and a flexible, interactive analytics engine with a SQL interface.”
- Maverick at TACC Tackles Big-Scale Data Visualization (Interview – Part 1) at VizWorld: “In the interview, Dr. Gaither elaborated that TACC offers more than just the GPU supercomputing capabilities: good data visualization calls for skills over and above knowledge of statistics and one’s own field of inquiry. She focused on “bridging the gap between the information that’s trapped in that data set and the way we portray it. Visualization is evolving: it starts from the roots in scientific visualization.”
- Get Familiar With Big Data Now—or Face ‘Permanent Pink Slip’ at The Wall Street Journal: “Companies really struggle sometimes to understand the talent they need. Candidates have a specific skill set and might be 80% there, and [hiring managers] need to understand whether the candidate has the ability to get to 100%. It’s difficult for nonquantitative people to understand whether someone has the smarts to be able to get there.”
- MongoDB Bigwig Says New Features Keep It ‘Way Ahead of Everybody Else’ at VentureBeat: “Engineers have toiled away in recent years to make it possible for the popular open-source database MongoDB to handle lots and lots data. Now they’ve taken steps to make management of all that data a breeze.”
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