It has a database (Hbase), an analytics environment (MapReduce, Hive, Mahout, etc.), and visualization tools (IBM BigInsights being one of many on the market).

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By providing location functions, data and visualization tools as a service much like SalesForce.com provides CRM services, ESRI is aiming to bring location analytics to main stream business users.

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The standout product here is the HOM-BOT, a sort of souped-up Roomba, that not only can direct itself, but also comes with some interesting data and camera visualization tools you can access through your smartphone.

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For the National Day of Civic Hacking, participants will focus on producing full, production ready apps and visualization tools that will be featured on the We the People website and made available under an open source license.

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Along with the announcement of its distribution, Intel also announced a broad array of partners that include business intelligence and analytics vendors, data visualization tools, and major infrastructure vendors that include Cisco, Cray, Dell, RedHat, and SAP.

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The goal is to extract a smaller set of data that can be analyzed, using any of the same visualization or analytical tools that would be used for other data types.

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It also enables visualization on different devices before publication, as well as tools to tweak look and feel to the different strengths of each product, and other software to analyze and target behavior and ads.

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