Russell Jurney

Russell Jurney is founder and CEO of Relato, a startup that maps the markets that make up to global economy. He is the author of two O'Reilly books, Agile Data Science (2013) and Big Data for Chimps (2015). He was previously a data scientist in product analytics at LinkedIn and a Hadoop evangelist at Hortonworks, before launching startup E8 Software as data scientist in residence at the Hive incubator. He lives in Pacifica, CA, with Bella the data dog.

Major players and important partnerships in the big data market

A fully data-driven market report maps and analyzes the intersections between companies.

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Download our new free report “Mapping Big Data: A Data Driven Market Report” for insights into the shape and structure of the big data market.

Who are the major players in the big data market? What are the sectors that make up the market and how do they relate? Which among the thousands of partnerships are most important?

These are just a handful of questions we explore in-depth in the new O’Reilly report now available for free download: Mapping Big Data: A Data Driven Market Report. For this new report, San Francisco-based startup Relato mapped the intersection of companies throughout the data ecosystem — curating a network with tens of thousands of nodes and edges representing companies and partnerships in the big data space.

Relato created the network by extracting data from company home pages on the Web and analyzed it using social network analysis; market experts interpreted the results to yield the insights presented in the report. The result is a preview of the future of market reports. Read more…

Graphs in the world: Modeling systems as networks

See, extract, and create value with networks.

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Networks of all kinds drive the modern world. You can build a network from nearly any kind of data set, which is probably why network structures characterize some aspects of most phenomenon. And yet, many people can’t see the networks underlying different systems. In this post, we’re going to survey a series of networks that model different systems in order to understand different ways networks help us understand the world around us.

We’ll explore how to see, extract, and create value with networks. We’ll look at four examples where I used networks to model different phenomenon, starting with startup ecosystems and ending in network-driven marketing.

Networks and markets

Commerce is one person or company selling to another, which is inherently a network phenomenon. Analyzing networks in markets can help us understand how market economies operate.

Strength of weak ties

Mark Granovetter famously researched job hunting and discovered the Strength of Weak Ties. Read more…