Can’t believe Hadoop Summit is just over a week away. We’ve just been notified that we’ve got a lightning talk at the day one reception too, bringing our talk tally up to a total of 5! You can find the details of all our panels and presentations here, and even request a meeting at the show. For [...]

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On my last post I shared how new social music discovery company TastemakerX is using Datameer for Big Data analytics to change the way people discover music. Today I’m excited to share how a 100+ year-old revered retail brand is reinventing itself for the newer generation of retailers (and e-tailers!) when it comes to leveraging [...]

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Anyone can talk about their technology until they’re blue in the face, but the fact is talking about real-world use cases and ROI is far more meaningful.  Our customers are doing really interesting things with Big Data analytics, ranging from fraud detection and prevention, behavioral analytics, customer segmentation, to pricing optimization and credit risk analysis. [...]

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I just joined Datameer, and it feels like I boarded a rocket. Each day has been amazing and reconfirmed the reasons why I joined the company. There really hasn’t been anything like big data in the last 10 years and our approach of providing native Hadoop analytics to users is really compelling to me. It’s [...]

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A couple months ago, I showed off some Hive Plots I worked on as part of our ongoing Datameer Geekout projects. We’ve done a few more Geekouts since then and I thought I’d share my latest project — the ability to import both private and publicy available data from Google Fusion Tables into Datameer. Google [...]

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First, lets talk about two truths. Based on 30 years of observations, I believe that relevant and competent data integration is critical in driving good analytics.  Without good and relevant integration, it is impossible to get relevant insights across all your data and you’re flying half blind as a result.  That has been proven historically, [...]

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As we shared on our blog a few months ago, our Business Infographic Designer and data visualization tools are powered by D3. js. For those of you interested in learning more, the following is a post full of resources and examples that I originally posted on my personal blog. I welcome any comments or questions [...]

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If you’ve ever dreamed about making millions off of building an iPhone app (and let’s be real, who hasn’t!), but you’ve got expertise in data, we’ve got good news for you. Late last year at Strata New York, we announced our Datameer Analytics App Market – the first true marketplace for buying and selling pre-built [...]

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What a week. In December, I wrote why we believe 2013 will be the year that “Big Data” crosses the chasm from the tech-savvy early adopters into the more mainstream business audience. This week we’re very humbled to have gotten what I believe to be two initial validations of our prediction. First, we are extremely [...]

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Articles about the severe lack of Data Scientists, despite their high demand, continue. Today on PEHub: “…outside of companies like Google that have long made use of rich rosters of PhDs, there are nowhere near enough “data scientists” — graduate-level candidates with backgrounds in machine learning or statistics — to analyze the massive streams of [...]

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