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Happy Holidays!

As most of the chimps have retreated back to the wilds of such foreign lands as Long Island, Cleveland, and Round Rock, things will be pretty quiet around here until Tuesday, December 27.  If you need...

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Announcing Support for OpenStack and the Rackspace Cloud

Infochimps is happy to announce that we now support the next generation Rackspace Cloud, based on OpenStack. Through integration with the OpenStack API the Infochimps Platform can now power big data...

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How We Do It

Infochimps uses many cutting edge tools (Chef, Amazon Web Services, Hadoop, Hbase, ElasticSearch, Flume, MongoDB, Phantom.js, etc. ad nauseum), and we’ve written a number of custom tools to help corral...

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Take a Tour of Our Big Data Platform

Sometimes, when we are trying to explain what Infochimps does, it can be tough to help folks understand the total package. To help with this, we put together a tour of the Infochimps Platform. Now, you...

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Konami Code Doppelgangers

After a morning discussion about 80s video games and nerd culture, we thought we would share with you, faithful blog reader, one of greatest secrets of the Infochimps website. Go here to our team page...

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$100m vs. $600m: Open-Source Big Data vs. Proprietary Databases

I recently read this ZDNet article, which I thought was an awesome comparison between open-source Big Data vendors such as Infochimps and Cloudera, and proprietary database vendors like Oracle. The...

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[Infographic] What Big Data & Your Kids Have in Common

Big Data is changing the game for strategic marketing programs. More data is available to marketers than ever before, and intelligently using this data is driving huge increases to the bottom line. As...

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Infochimps CTO Named Top 100 Contributors to GitHub 2012

Flip Kromer, Infochimps Founder and CTO, also known as MrFlip, was named by GitHub as one of the Top 100 Contributors in 2012. Flip made over 2,300 contributions to the global, open source developer...

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Fact or Fiction: Big Data and Marketing Myth Busters

As the uses of Big Data continue to evolve with the creation of platforms and dashboards that promise in-the-moment marketing feedback, much skepticism arises as to whether or not they can deliver on...

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There’s an app for that: Visualizing the Internet

“There’s an app for that.” We’ve heard it many times, the spoken certainty that the necessities of the world are satisfied by an app. We love cool apps as much as anyone, so FlowingData caught our...

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Cloud. It’s More Than Just Price

It’s not about price, as GigaOM recently posted an article that discusses shifting motivations for adopting cloud.  Sure, adopting cloud will in some cases be a smaller total cost of ownership (TCO),...

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Announcing Infochimps Cloud 3.2

Moving petabytes or even hundreds of terabytes of data to the public cloud can be costly and time consuming work. Since its conception, the goal of the Infochimps Cloud has been to provide the...

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Inbound + Nate Silver = Inspired Chimps

At Infochimps, we take professional growth development seriously. Last week, Infochimps gave the marketing team the opportunity to attend Hubspot’s Inbound 2013 conference in the beautiful city of...

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More Complex in Asia: Mapping the Most Visited Website by Country

Being engulfed in the online world, this article from FlowingData caught my attention about the most visited website by country. Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata from Information Geographies mapped...

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