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Big Data

Shares of Tableau Software skyrocket as profits soar

Tableau Software is enjoying life on Wall Street. The Seattle company, a maker of software to visualize data, saw its… Read More

Datatown USA: Why Seattle is poised to be the ‘big data’ capital of the world

Big Data is a big buzzword, used so often these days that the term seems to have lost some of… Read More

Measureful relaunches, aiming to become ‘Flipboard for analytics’

The data provided by free services like Google Analytics and Facebook for websites and company pages can be extremely valuable… Read More

Monsanto paying $930M to buy The Climate Corp. to help farmers harvest data

It’s sunny skies today for The Climate Corp., a 7-year-old San Francisco company that sells insurance to farmers and uses… Read More

Ignition leads $15M round in private cloud startup BlueData

Ignition Partners has led a $15 million venture capital round in BlueData, a stealthy Mountain View, California startup that’s developing… Read More

Versium raises $2.5M to help marketers crunch data that predicts customer behavior

Businesses today want to know as much as they can about their customers in order to better serve them. Often… Read More

How Major League Baseball dominates the big data and mobile game

There is more data in baseball than perhaps any other sport. From the basic stats — balls, strikes, runs —… Read More

Shares of Tableau soar after revenues rise 71% in first earnings report post IPO

In its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Seattle-based Tableau wowed Wall Street, posting revenues of $49.9 million for… Read More

Big data startup Minetta Brook scores $2M to analyze stock news

Minetta Brook, a big data startup led by Deepak “DB” Bharadwaj and Prabhu Venkatesh, has raised $2 million in seed funding to… Read More

Data analytics startup Context Relevant scores $7M series A from Madrona, Bloomberg and others

Context Relevant has reeled in $7 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle company will use for continued development… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve lands $10 million

SpaceCurve, which is developing a big data platform that it says provides “instantaneous intelligence” for location-based services, commodities and other… Read More

Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share

Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday’s initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we’ve got… Read More

Heralded UW computer science professor scores $6.75M for GraphLab, looking to make better online recommendations

It was a major coup last summer when The University of Washington hooked computer science professor Carlos Guestrin, a leading data scientist… Read More

Fast-growing Tableau sets IPO range at $23 to $26 per share

Tableau Software, the fast-growing 10-year-old Seattle company which helps businesses and organization make better sense of their data, has set… Read More

Hey, NYC: Thanks for finally recognizing Seattle but your infographic stinks

The Big Apple versus The Emerald City. Could this be an epic showdown over data geeks? That’s the discussion in… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers

We’ve been wondering what former Microsoft vice president Sanjay Parthasarathy has been building ever since we discovered his startup, Indix, 18 months… Read More

Versium debuts ‘LifeData’ analytics platform to help companies fully understand customers

A Seattle data technology startup is taking the phrase “know your customer” to a whole new level. Versium Analytics today introduced… Read More

How big data will transform politics, education and just about everything else

Big data requires big thinkers. And some of Seattle’s top minds — from University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni… Read More

This startup wants to be the Dropbox for ocean data

With the backdrop of fish swimming by at the Seattle Aquarium, OneOcean Corp. CEO Don Pickering on Tuesday night took… Read More

SpaceCurve claims Big Data record after processing petabytes of data per day

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve announced today that it has set a real-time Big Data performance record for ingesting streaming data and… Read More

New computing institute on UW campus will focus on big data problems

The University of Washington is already a budding hub for computer science. Now, with some help from a national laboratory,… Read More

Sports Hack Day: A 48-hour sports-themed hackathon during Super Bowl weekend

While most people will spend Super Bowl Sunday sitting on their couches, a group of hackers, data crunchers and sports… Read More

A Dropbox for ocean data: Stealthy big data startup OneOcean lands $6 million

Scientists have been collecting data on the world’s oceans for decades now. But the files containing this information are massive… Read More

Context Relevant inks deal to help Concur mine travel data, raises $1.5 million

Seattle startup Context Relevant today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Concur Technologies to bring its… Read More

Fast-growing big data startup SpaceCurve looks to double staff after office move

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has moved to a larger office in Pioneer Square, tripling the amount of space it… Read More

Big data startup with UW ties lands cash from Accel

Trifacta, a San Francisco big data company co-founded by incoming University of Washington computer science professor Jeffrey Heer and University… Read More

Facebook: The personalization engine for all of the Web

Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington… Read More

Context Relevant rebuffs ‘acquihire’ offers, attracts top data scientists

Context Relevant doesn’t want to be the next “acquihire,” selling out to a large technology company before the promise of… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve lands $3.5 million

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new… Read More

Contest to award $100,000 to solve ‘big data graph problems’

Can’t get enough of big data? A new contest created by YarcData — a unit of Seattle supercomputer maker Cray… Read More

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