But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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This open-source data analysis software allows everyone in theory to know the exact value of their house, their car and even their business prospects.
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In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.
The Registry will also provide a rich source of data for long-term research.
EBay also adopted new tools for big-data processing, such as the open-source software framework Hadoop and a system called Mobius that was developed in its labs.
Moreover, the application will source play play-by-play data and a database of stats going back 120 years to generate the real-time predictions on any given outcome during the game.
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Now Europe will for the first time have a consolidated tape a single data source for all the market data feeds from exchanges and multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs).
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But unlike those projects, OONI uses only open-source software and plans to make the raw data gathered by its tools public and accessible to any researcher.
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"The future is sharing -- open data, open participation, open source, open everything, " Newsom writes.
Today, less than 5% of revenues come from emerging Big Data pure play vendors and open-source contributors such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and others.
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But ubiquitous digital consumer data, cheap computing power and open-source software have created a tremendous opportunity for smart marketers to change the research game.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.
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Kaskade, the newly-appointed CEO of Infochimps, believes CIOs are ready to embrace open source big data software and that the established IT players, lacking open source experience, will have to buy their way into the market.
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But they say it will be 2018 at the earliest before they can even start incorporating data from the programme into their estimates - and there are no plans to replace the IPS as the main source of migration data.
Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.
An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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Will Salesforce.com reinvent this category or will its partners sufficiently address the need customers have for a cost-effective, easy-to-use data environment that is optimized for analytics across Salesforce.com data and any other source?
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It works well when cities open their data to the public or when, as in the case of Wikipedia, an open-source software platform supports open-source content.
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In a prime example of Orwellian doublespeak, this program is called "science- based stockpile stewardship" even though it is less scientific since it precludes the most prolific source of empirical data on nuclear weapons, namely, nuclear tests.
The growing acceptance of open-source software, especially when it is supported by a dedicated vendor, is another way by which the big data wave is different from previous surges of investment in the collection and analysis of data.
As Apple is using the reply-to address of a message's User Data Header to identify the origin rather than the raw source, receiving iPhone owners risk being fooled by a phishing attack (or just a dishonest acquaintance) that poses as a contact or a company.
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