How Drones And Big Data Are Creating Winds Of Change For Hurricane Forecasts

This article in +Forbes looks at how Drones and Big Data are creating winds of change for Hurricane Forecasts.

A fascinating use of Big Data for sure.

Pivotal and Hortonworks collaborate on Ambari for enterprise HADOOP

In +ZDNet this article by +Natalie Gagliordi she notes that Pivotal has said it will dedicate engineers to contribute installation, configuration and management capabilities to Ambari.

5 ways to get the most out of BI and Big Data

This article by David Gee and Matthias Feltz looks at how CIOs must play an active role in creating and governing a competency centre.

Kindle e-book on Big Data

This link contains links to Amazon to get a free e-book on Big Data.

It's a very high level document but you might find it useful to point a colleague to.

Hottest 50 Big Data start-ups of 2014

This article lists them.  You do need to sign up for the newsletter to see the list except for the top 3.

Data Scientist Core Skills

This blog post from  Mitchell A Sanders on Data Science Central goes through the core skills a Data Scientist needs to have.

Looking through his list as always I can see my weakest area is the Capture section as I know I am not so good at programming.

Teradata has acquired Revelytix and Hadapt

It appears that there is some consolidation in the big data market following the news that Teradata has acquired Revelytix and Hadapt.