Whether you’re new to predictive analytics or have a few projects under your belt, it’s all too easy to make gaffes. “The vast majority of analytic projects are riddled with mistakes,” says John Elder, CEO at data mining firm Elder Research. Most of those aren’t fatal — almost every model can be improved — but […]
Posted on August 7th, 2013 by admin
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Tidemark has raised $13 million for its cloud-based analytics platform. Tenaya Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint Ventures. This latest round brings the total amount raised to more than $48 million. The technology is built on an in-memory platform that pulls structured and unstructured data into an elastic […]
Posted on August 4th, 2013 by admin
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Infographics are one of the most-maligned, yet most popular, ways that people share data with others, and today LinkedIn is releasing two infographics-related updates that it hopes will help it become a stronger player in that arena. The company is adding two new features to SlideShare, the content sharing platform it bought in May 2012 […]
Posted on July 26th, 2013 by admin
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DataTorrent has raised $8 million in a round led by August Capital for its Hadoop-based, real-time data streaming platform. The company had previously raised $750,000 in a seed round with participation from Morado Ventures, Ex-Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and well-known angel investor Farzad Nazem. It is the first investment in the data […]
Posted on July 7th, 2013 by admin
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Hortonworks announced on its blog this morning that it has raised $50 million in new financing to accelerate the growth and development of its Hadoop distribution for data analytics and the application in operations and transaction-based systems. The investment was led by new investors Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, with participation from existing investors […]
Posted on June 26th, 2013 by admin
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Google BigQuery is getting a number of new updates to make it easier to analyze large amounts of data quickly and at a lower price. BigQuery is designed to process terabytes of data, and today’s updates should provide a greater degree of flexibility for ad hoc analysis of extremely large datasets and allow for more sophisticated analysis. There […]
Posted on June 12th, 2013 by admin
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ParStream and Panopticon are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization by integrating their respective platforms. ParStream offers an in-memory analytics technology that offers sub-second response. Panopticon is known for its visual analytics and in-memory engine that can push out graphics in an event stream. ParStream has $5.6 million in Series A funding from […]
Posted on June 1st, 2013 by admin
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Alteryx has raised $12 million for its business intelligence service designed for data analysts to build tools out of their own internal data and that from third parties. The investment comes from SAP Ventures and Toba Capital, a new firm founded by former Quest Founder and CEO Vinny Smith. Quest sold to Dell last year […]
Posted on May 20th, 2013 by admin
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One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two, Tableau Software and Marketo, are debuting on New York stock exchanges. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as “DATA”, is […]
Posted on May 18th, 2013 by admin
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SiSense has raised $10 million from Battery Ventures for platform that targets the growing number of companies with terabaytes of data to analyze and visualize The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from Opus Capital and Genesis Partners. SiSense uses what it calls the “ElastiCube,” a high-performance analytical database that leverages server technology […]
Posted on April 9th, 2013 by admin
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