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  IBM speeds up data analysis with new algorithm

  IBM researchers have developed a new algorithm that could in minutes analyze terabytes' worth of raw data to more quickly predict weather and electricity usage, the company said Thursday.

  By Agam Shah | 26 February, 2010 07:09

  Tags: algorithms, analytics, data analysis, IBM

• Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet

  Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems.

  By Network World staff | 18 December, 2009 09:39

  Tags: data analysis, data mining, Facebook, privacy

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  MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology

  MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 16 September, 2009 05:36

  Tags: data analysis, mapreduce, MySpace, open source

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  Autonomy tool analyzes data from Facebook, social networks

  Autonomy is giving businesses a way to analyze and react to discussion of their products and services on social media sites.

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 28 May, 2009 04:40

  Tags: data analysis, Facebook, social networking

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