The Structure Data awards: Honoring the best data startups of 2013 by Derrick Harris.
From the post:
Data is taking over the world, which makes for an exciting time to be covering information technology. Almost every new company understands the importance of analyzing data, and many of their products — from fertility apps to stream-processing engines — are based on this understanding. Whether it’s helping users do new things or just do the same old things better, data analysis really is changing the enterprise and consumer technology spaces, and the world, in general.
With that in mind, we have decided to honor some of the most-promising, innovative and useful data-based startups with our inaugural Structure Data awards. The criteria were simple. Companies (or projects) must have launched in 2013; must have been covered in Gigaom; and, most importantly, must make the collection and analysis of data a key part of the user experience. Identifying these companies was the easy part; the hard part was paring down the list of categories and candidates to a reasonable number.
Just a quick head’s up about the Readers’ Choice awards at GIgaom. Voting closes 14 February 2014.
If you need a suggestion under Machine Learning/AI, vote for GraphLab!