Data Today: Google's brain, data governance + more

It's not just Hadoop core anymore

1. Google's forays into the neural net From its earliest days, Google’s founders have considered it an artificial intelligence company. Here’s the story of the Google "brain." 2. Want to know more about recurrent neural nets? Nikhil Buduma does a deep dive into recurrent neural nets. 3. It's not just about Hadoop core anymore For maximum business value, big data applications have to involve multiple Hadoop ecosystem components. Here’s how. 4. Will Microsoft make R easier? In a word: maybe. 5. How to hire data scientists And bring out their best. Sponsored Content Virtualizing Hadoop in large-scale infrastructures At Adobe Systems, the analytic demands for its large-scale Hadoop cluster was rising, requiring an innovative and efficient approach to managing Hadoop. With the help of EMC, VMware, and Cisco, Adobe virtualized the Hadoop computing environment. The result? Adobe successfully ran a 65 TB Hadoop job—one of the industry’s largest to date in a virtualized environment. This white paper shares design, best practices, and POC results 6. Hadoop gets serious about data governance Hortonworks has launched a three-point plan to strengthen data governance in Hadoop—and has worked with companies like Target, Merck, Aetna, and SAS, to implement their proposed measures. 7. Strata + Hadoop World nearly sold out Strata + Hadoop World is happening in San Jose Feb 17-20, and if you don’t act fast, you may miss it. We’re on the verge of selling out again. (In fact, hotel rooms at the Strata + Hadoop World prices are fully booked, the Advanced Spark Training is sold out, and several other of our trainings and tutorials are nearing capacity.) Register now → 8. (Not so) anonymous MIT Researchers showed that, even starting with "anonymized" transaction records, they can identify you with 90% accuracy just by looking at 4 credit card purchases. Sponsored Content Modular data apps On Thursday Feb 12, there will be a free 30-minute webcast, Modular Apps: The Building Blocks of Big Data Business Value, presented by Chris Twogood and compliments of Teradata. You'll hear about new solutions and methodologies to quickly build, deploy, and share big data apps for faster time to value. Find out more → 9. You expected Moscow to be serious, didn't you? Facial recognition + Mechanical Turk + 3200 selfies = a fascinating view of the way we present ourselves worldwide. 10. Freebie of the week Get Chapter 1: What Do We Mean by Data-Driven? and Chapter 5: Data Analysis from the preview edition ofCreating a Data-Driven Organization, free, compliments of Teradata. Get my free chapters →

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