The money will go toward developing new techniques for data analysis and for visually portraying large, multi-dimensional data sets ... suited for big-data number crunching, but Python offers ...

Major Hadoop distributor Cloudera Inc. today unveiled a new tool to provide a 100 percent, end-to-end Python stack for advanced Big Data analytics ... But Python has been limited to smaller data sets, ...

When it comes to analyzing big data ... Key to Python’s usefulness is its simplicity, Himrod said. One of the biggest challenges that Himrod faces is how to get a diverse set of employees ...