The 2012 Code for America Summit: Democracy Behind and Beyond the Dashboard
From the Code for America Ignite event, which took place the first night of the Summit at the CfA offices. Photos by Paul M. Davis. The growth of the civic tech movement in recent years is impressive....
View ArticleGreenplum and Kaggle Partner to Connect OpenChorus Users with the Data...
The high demand for data scientists is an significant challenge for increasingly predictive enterprises. It’s is a sophisticated vocation, requiring a range of specialized skills. Kaggle, the online...
View Article“More Hands Than Our Own”: Greenplum’s Logan Lee on Opening Chorus
Data science is a team sport that thrives upon collaboration, quick iteration, and a healthy amount of collegial competitiveness. These characteristics also drive development in the open source...
View ArticleTransparency, Clarity, and Focus: How Pivotal Tracker Enables Agile...
An easel. A marker. Sometimes the most effective and immediate way to capture thoughts and collaborate is also the most tactile, visual, and simple. But easels and markers have their limitations:...
View ArticleInformation Regarding the Pivotal Initiative
On December 4, 2012, EMC and VMware shared information on the newly formed Pivotal Initiative. Q: What is the Pivotal Initiative? VMware and EMC are committing key existing technology, people and...
View ArticleHeroic Feats of Data Scientists Doing Good
Photo by Sean MacEntee via Flickr. (CC BY 2.0) Data scientists are a tireless lot: between using their multidisciplinary skills to solve critical business challenges, fielding job offers, and competing...
View ArticleHarper Reed on the Power of Data, at Hadoop: the Foundation for Change
Photo by Joi Ito via Fotopedia. (CC BY 2.0) Big Data’s impact is wide-ranging, from business to media, the sciences to politics. These massive shifts are largely powered by Hadoop, a flexible,...
View ArticleIntroducing Pivotal HD
I’m very excited to finally be able to talk in public about something we’ve been working on for quite some time. In 2011 we announced our first version of Greenplum Hadoop, GPHD. This week, we’ll have...
View ArticleFinding Problem Solvers Who Provide Big Answers: An Interview with Harper Reed
Harper Reed, CTO for the Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, delivered the keynote speech at EMC Greenplum’s Hadoop: The Foundation for Change event on Monday, February 25. Reed delivered what he called...
View ArticleChorus In Action at Data Science London
Logan Lee at Data Science London. Image via Data Science London (@ds_ldn) Over the past few years, organizations like Data Science London have sprung up in major metropolitan cities all over the world....
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