If Big Data was last year's buzzword, Data Science may reach the same level of hype this year. There's no shortage of discussion about the high demand for data scientists, the term's usefulness as a designation, and even declarations of its "sexiness" as a career. And as with many terms ... [Read more...]

One of the greatest challenges while working with big datasets concerns the need to move information out of storage for analysis. To this end, the recent announcement of PivotalR 0.1 extends Pivotal HD's capabilities, allowing users of the statistical programming language R to perform in-database analytics without leaving the command line. [Read more...]

Data science is a sophisticated and complex discipline, but since it's still an emerging field, its practitioners come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Typically, though, a background in working with large data sets in a research setting is advantageous. This is why you may be mingling with a former ... [Read more...]