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Justin Bieber, World Cup, Haiti, iPad top 2010 trends on Facebook and Twitter
In the footsteps of Google, which posts a yearly zeitgeist of the most searched terms, Facebook and Twitter have decided to unpack some of their trends of the year from tweets and status updates. To...
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Palantir’s third black eye: i2 lawsuit settled
For a company named after a magical talisman of vision, Palantir didn’t seem to see what was coming these past few weeks. The secretive data-analysis startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif. and backed by...
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Data-driven future looms for product development
GUEST: (Editor’s note: Niel Robertson is the founder and CEO of Trada. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) “I know that half of my advertising doesn’t work. The problem is I don’t know which...
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Can big data improve national security? Obama Admin commits $200M to find out
Positing that data analysis on a grand scale can solve the nation’s most critical challenges, the Obama Administration has kicked off a big data initiative with $200 million in commitments from six...
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If analytics is the answer then you’re asking the wrong question
GUEST: Hugh Reynolds is the chief executive of Swrve. Ask the chief executive of every Fortune 500 business in the country what the single most important thing to a successful business is and the...
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Mode Analytics takes more money to help data analysts work together
Mode Analytics, a startup keen on ensuring that data analysts working together don’t duplicate work that’s been done before, has gotten some fresh cash. The company disclosed a $375,000 capital raise...
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Radius scores $54.7M as it helps make marketers smarter
Digital marketing lives on insights derived from its accumulated data. Today, marketing intelligence provider Radius, which gathers and assesses that information, announced it has landed $54.7 million...
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Ekho lands $1.2M for its flexible marketing intelligence platform
EXCLUSIVE: A startup called Ekho, which launched its flexible marketing intelligence platform back in spring of 2013, is today announcing its first funding of $1.2 million. This multipurpose marketing...
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DataScience gets $6M to analyze data so you don’t have to
DataScience, a startup that relies on the labor of data scientists to provide a cloud service nontechnical people can use to answer tough questions, announced today that it has taken on $6 million in...
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The top 3 data challenges your business will face in 2016
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Sisense. Data discoveries are changing the conversation — in the boardrooms of every organization and in the media. Whether you are using data to find new...
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Do you understand your digital supply chain? (Even pirates understand theirs.)
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Kentik. The concept of a supply chain is well understood in manufacturing. It involves the movement, staging, and storage of raw materials, work-in-process...
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Beyond Excel: What analysts — not data scientists — need
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Alteryx. Harvard Business School (HBS) is filled with nearly identical rooms. With the exception of one: Aldrich 108. In that room there is an odd plaque...
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Why scribbling is the key to truly understanding your data
SPONSORED: Presented by Tableau. When you think of your workday, which description sounds more accurate? Is it a day of relentless movement from crisis to crisis, email after email, meetings without...
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AI does not provide a shortcut to GDPR compliance
GUEST: Two acronyms are sure to grab headlines in 2018: AI and GDPR. Gartner called AI the most disruptive technology of the next 10 years, and the technology will certainly continue to generate...
View ArticleSocialNuggets launches portal analyzing data on tablet usage
Social analytics company SocialNuggets is releasing its first free analytics portal Wednesday. The site provides free data analysis for the tablet industry, based on millions of tweets, blog posts and...
View ArticleMetaLayer launches community to make better infographics (exclusive)
MetaLayer, a startup that helps you make visualizations from complex sets of data, has launched a new data community for people to share visualizations they’ve made with its service. “We want to do to...
View ArticleWhy I’m skeptical that the Moneyball strategy will work in VC
GUEST: This is a guest post by Jon Soberg, managing director at Blumberg Capital. Venture capitalists picking up the Moneyball strategy. It’s a fascinating idea, and I know plenty of my peers are...
View ArticleGenomics startup gets $3M to usher in new era of ‘personalized medicine’
The cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted. But how will this benefit doctors and patients? Biomedical researchers hope to harness data about the human gene pool to usher a new era of...
View ArticleInsightSquared gets $8M to bring data analysis to Main Street
InsightSquared, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company that is taking on Microsoft’s Excel, just scored $8 million in second round funding. Newly-public Tableau has been touted by analysts as an “Excel...
View Article'Excel killer' Tableau moves to the cloud
Tableau Software made an announcement today it feels is its most significant since going public: It is moving to the cloud. Seattle-based Tableau originally filed for its IPO in early April and...
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