Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software. 2011 a year for Big Data. A new year and we are super excited about what is coming in 2011.
Big data and real-time are hot topics and we feel that DataSift is ready to take on the challenge of assisting our customers with the problems of dealing with finding the right data and soon how to analyse it. So what did we do in 2010? DataSift was built as a platform for consumers and businesses to sift through the real-time web to discover content. We launched the Alpha three months ago and within a month had several thousand signups (helped in part by making it into the final six at Techcrunch Disrupt.
The development team had a lot of very challenging technical problems to solve working with vast quantities of real-time data and building a platform that will be completely future proof. Love Big Data? Infochimps Have an API Call for That. Austin-based data marketplace Infochimps announces the launch of their API today.
The API provides access to the company's Twitter and U.S. Census datasets, giving developers, researchers, and marketers the ability to take advantage of Infochimps' data without requiring the computational resources necessary to query the information from billions of tweets and hundreds of millions of U.S. households. Describing it as "Swiss army knife" of APIs, the Infochimps API includes the following calls to their Twitter and Census datasets: Trstrank: Based on the data in their Trst.me tool that was released in April, this service ranks Twitters users using the same algorithm Google utilizes to calculate page rank.
Data mining, forecasting and bioinformatics competitions on Kaggle.