The cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted. But how will this benefit doctors and patients?
Guest Post When I look at how data analytics will impact VC, do I realistically think algorithms will give me a competitive advantage? No. These are not liquid markets, and there are very few good data points.
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 federal agencies.
The White House Office of Science …
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 data analysis what Apple has done …
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 other online content.
Other portals focused on different industry verticals …
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(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 half.” – John Wanamaker
For …
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 early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, has …
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 measure trends in Facebook’s status …
