Top 10 News/Blog Sites for Big Data

Top 10 News/Blog Sites for Big Data

Source: http://www.digitalistmag.com/technologies/big-data/2012/05/10/top-10-newsblog-sites-for-big-data-05702

As we continue to serve as a resource for business innovation information, we compiled a list of the Top 10 News/Blog sites featuring information about Big Data in addition to our Top 50 #BigData Twitter Influencers. These sources were compiled using specific search terms, Alexa rankings, site information, and relevancy to the topic.

1. Forrester Big Data Blog
Overview: An aggregation of blogs from company contributors focusing on Big Data topics.

About Forrester (from their site) – Forrester is a global research and advisory firm and serves professionals in 19 key roles across three distinct client groups. Their clients face progressively complex business and technology decisions every day. To help them understand, strategize, and act upon opportunities brought by change, Forrester provides proprietary research, consumer and business data, custom consulting, events and online communities, and peer-to-peer executive programs. Forrester guides leaders in IT, marketing and strategy, and the technology industry through independent fact-based insight, ensuring business success today and tomorrow.www.forrester.com

2. Smarter Computing Big Data Blog
Overview: A compilation of contributors blogging about Big Data and Cloud topics. Each week the top reads in BigData is posted, which lists and links back to top articles.

About Smarter Computing Blog (from their site) – The blog is intended to provide readers with thought-provoking content and a place to talk about the issues raised within the content. Smarter Computing Blog feels strongly that the blog is not going to deliver final answers to the issues raised, but will represent a starting point for conversation around the issues.

3. GigaOm
Overview:GigaOm features news articles about Big Data, Analytics and Mobile. It’s a great place to read recent tech news stories and updates on hot topics.

About GigaOm (from their site) – Founded in 2006, GigaOM is now the leading provider of online media, events and research for global technology innovators. The company is one of the most credible and insightful voices at the intersection of business and technology, with an online audience of more than 4.5 million monthly unique visitors; industry-leading events, including Structure, Mobilize, GigaOM RoadMap, and Structure: Data; and a pioneering market research service and digital community, GigaOM Pro, which provides expert analysis and research on emerging technology markets.

4. Greenplum.com
Overview: Greenplum provides a section within the site with aggregated blog posts and news focused on Analytics, Big Data, Data Scientists, Data Warehousing and Hadoop. It pulls information directly from Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Information Week.

About Greenplum (from their site) – Greenplum, a division of EMC (acquired by EMC in July 2010, becoming the foundation of EMC’s Big Data Division), is driving the future of Big Data analytics with breakthrough products that harness the skills of data science teams to help global organizations realize the full promise of business agility and become data-driven, predictive enterprises.

5. Data Stories
Overview: A bi-weekly podcast on data visualization with with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner (two Big Data industry influencers). Each podcast post provides a breakdown of the content by time and relevant resource links.

6. Data Round Table
Overview: A community of Big Data and data experts discussing data quality, data integration, MDM, data governance, and data migration. This is a nice compilation of various perspectives.

About Data RoundTable (from the site) – The Data Roundtable is a forum where industry thought leaders come together to share the spotlight and discuss data management topics. Each day you’ll find a new post about something relevant and thought-provoking, from news on federal regulations to pop-culture commentaries on how data management relates to Seinfeld. There’s no agenda – just ideas.

7. ZDNet
Overview: This blog features Andrew Brust discussing Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL and the mystical discipline of data science.

8. The Data Warehouse Insider
Overview: Technical details, ideas and news on data warehousing and Big Data from the Oracle Team.

9. Planet BigData
Overview: Planet BigData is an aggregator of worldwide blogs about Big Data, Hadoop, and related topics.

10. Dataversity
Overview (from their site): DATAVERSITY™ provides resources for information technology (IT) professionals, executives and business managers to learn about the uses and management of Big Data.  The worldwide community of practitioners, advisers and customers participates in, and benefits from, DATAVERSITY’s educational conferences, discussions, articles, blogs, webinars, certification, news feeds and more.