Big Data and Old, Incomplete Listicles

June 19, 2015

I enjoy lists of the most important companies, the top 25 vendors of a specialized service, and a list of companies I should monitor. Wonderful stuff because I encounter firms about which I have zero information in my files and about which I have heard nary a word.

An interesting list appears in “50 Big Data Companies to Follow.” The idea is that I should set up a Google Alert for each company and direct my Overflight system to filter content mentioning these firms. The problem with this post is that the information does not originate with Datamation or Data Science Center. The list was formulated by Sand Hill.com in a story called “Sand Hill 50 “Swift and Strong” in Big Data.” The list was compiled prior to its publication in January 2014. This makes the list 18 months old. With the speed of change in Big Data, the list in my opinion is stale.

A similar list appears in “CRN 50 Big Data business Analytics Companies,” which appears on the KDNuggets.com Web site. This list appears to date from the middle of 2014, which makes it about a year old. Better but not fresh.

I did locate an update called “2015 Big Data 100: Business Analytics.” Locating a current list of Big Data companies was not easy. Presumably my search skills are sub par. Nevertheless, the list is interesting.

Here are some firms in Big Data which were new to me:

Guavas
Knime
Zoomdata

But the problem was that the CRN Web site presented only 46 vendors, not 100.

Observations:

Datamation is pushing out via its feed links to old content originating on other publishers’ Web sites
The obscurity of the names in the list is the defining characteristic of the lists
Getting a comprehensive, current list of Big Data vendors is difficult. Data Science just listed 15 companies and back linked to Sand Hill. CRN displayed 46 companies but forced me to click on each listing. I could not view the entire list.

Not too useful, folks.

Stephen E Arnold, June 19, 2015

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Big data, News, Publishing

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One Response to “Big Data and Old, Incomplete Listicles”

Gregory Piatetsky on June 19th, 2015 2:12 pm

Here are 4 updated 2015 Big Data Company lists
http://www.kdnuggets.com/tag/crn

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.