Amazon has an unrivalled bank of data on online consumer purchasing behaviour that it can mine from its 152 million customer accounts. Since many years, Amazon uses that data to built a recommender systems that suggest products to people who visit Amazon.com. Already in 2003 they used item-item similarity methods from collaborative filtering, which was at that time … [Read more...] about How Amazon Is Leveraging Big Data
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Packetloop Is A Big Data Security Analytics Platform
Company Packetloop Address Suite 8.06 70 Pitt St Sydney, 2000, Australia Founders Tyson Garrett, Scott Crane & Michael Baker Founded May 2011 Funding $ 0 Employees 5 Website www.arbornetworks.com Rating 6 bits  With big data come big security issues. The more data that is available, the more data that needs protection. At the moment only half of the … [Read more...] about Packetloop Is A Big Data Security Analytics Platform
Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
 Company Geckoboard Address Unit 310, Curtain House, 34-146 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AR, United Kingdom Founders Paul Joyce & Rob Hudson Founded 2010 Funding $ 1.8 million Employees 25 Website Geckoboard Rating 7 bits Geckoboard is a data communication tool that connects to all your data sources and displays your most important metrics on a … [Read more...] about Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
The Australian Open Gives Fans Deeper Insights With Data
For 20 years now, IBM is the main technology partner for the Australian Open. In just two decades, the Australian Open went from a watch-only tennis tournament to a full-interactive, data-rich tennis tournament that caters for the needs of millions of fans from around the world who want to know all about their favourite tennis player. During this years Australian Open, IBM has … [Read more...] about The Australian Open Gives Fans Deeper Insights With Data
Big Data Startup Informly Is An Analytics Platform For SME’s
 Company Informly Address 3 / 21 Nind Street Southport Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia Founders Dan Norris Founded June 2012 Funding $ 0 Employees 3 Website www.Inform.ly Rating 4 bits Informly is an all-included analytics platform for Small and Medium sized companies who know that it is important to monitor all kinds of statistics, but who do not want to … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup Informly Is An Analytics Platform For SME’s
