Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

We invited four enterprise CEO's for an interview at the VentureBeat office. The catch? They had to explain their tricky tech to a panel of kids.

Kaggle’s new service is about matchmaking for the ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’: data scientist

A San Francisco-based startup called Kaggle is taking on the talent shortage, whether through its data science competitions or a new service launching today, dubbed "Kaggle Connect."

Here’s how startups can access the wisdom of 70,000 data scientists

Is your startup struggling to solve a tricky data challenge? Data science startup Kaggle is launching a program today to rally its community of 70,000 statisticians from around the world to solve your most enduring problems.

Election 2012 is big-data nerds’ gut punch to traditional punditry

The world's best number crunchers did more than predict the outcome of the presidential election. They may have helped a candidate get elected.

Engineers, want to work for Facebook? Just map the entire Internet

Engineers looking to skip to the front of recruiting line and land a job at Facebook have a new, unconventional way to get themselves noticed. All they have to do is successfully map the entire Internet.

The future is now: 10 startups leading the way in ‘big data’

"Big data" isn't just an enterprise trend. It's a technological innovation that is already making a difference in your life. Here are ten companies who are helping define this emerging field.

Kaggle’s algorithms show machines are getting too good at judging humans

Kaggle, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts data science competitions, has uncovered some disconcerting insights about human behavior in its two-year run. At times, its founders have been surprised by the accuracy of an algorithm, and the competitions continue to …

Kaggle launches competition to help Microsoft Kinect learn new gestures

What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut?

Big data startup Kaggle just launched a machine learning competition to develop an algorithm that Kinect can use …

Kaggle raises $11M to make data science competitive, and Silicon Valley bigwigs are impressed

“Spec work” is a term of derision in the creative industries, applied to work that’s done for free to win a prize or a contract. But for some, the model has worked so well that Kaggle is applying the model …