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Today's an extraordinarily special day for Precog and I've got some incredibly exciting news to share. News that comes around at most once in a product's lifetime.

After 6 months in public beta, Precog is announcing that we are exiting beta and entering into general availability. We are officially opening our doors and accepting unlimited numbers of production accounts!

A huge thanks to the more than 1300 companies who have taken us for a spin. You've given us a tremendous amount of valuable feedback, you've put up with rough edges and warts, and you've inspired us to make our technology faster, better, and easier to use.

I also owe an equally large debt of gratitude to the Precog team members who have worked so hard in getting to where we are today.

You guys and gals have worked tirelessly in making our product better with each passing today. You've put your love and your passion and your expertise into Precog, and you have made raving fans out of a growing number of customers. I'm extremely proud of all of you!

As part of the launch, you'll notice a bunch of improvements on the frontend:

• A brand new website, easier to understand and to navigate.
• Completely redesigned account signup, login, and management, which make it easier than ever to get started with Precog.
• Brand new and completely overhauled client libraries for our REST API.
• Simple and transparent pricing across our whole stack.
• Cleaner and better documentation than ever before.
• Immediate availability of our on-premises solution, in both a hardware appliance and a virtual appliance (thanks to popular demand!).

You'll also notice we've forked the home page into two different tracks: one for businesses, and one for developers. Each group has different needs.

One wants to think in terms of business value and solving business problems, and the other wants to think in terms of how Precog works and what Precog can do at a technical level. By forking the home page, we can direct each group to content they want to see, rather than trying to aim for a middle-ground that confuses business stakeholders and doesn't contain the juicy technical details that developers need.

Please give our new site a whirl, and consider signing up for a free account in our managed cloud. If you have any feedback, please send it on to me directly at john@precog.com.

Thanks again to everyone who made this day possible!

One feature that sets Precog apart from many embedded reporting solutions is the possibility to perform advanced analytics. This includes the ability to perform predictive analytics. Among other things, predictions can be used to create personalizations, recommendations or other sales optimizations.

In this blog post, we will cover simple introductory examples of clustering, linear regression, logistic regression and applying evaluation metrics. The code snippets included will use data included in the demo version of Labcoat so that you can run the queries and modify if desired.

On Monday night, the Precog team attended the Data Science Fair as part of Big Data Week here in Colorado. The room was packed with Data Scientists, Graduate Students, & Data Nerds and tables were covered with data visualizations and interesting projects showing how big data is solving problems in the world.

Attendees walked around (after filling up on pizza and beer) the room talking to each presenter and then voted via text message. Franco and Nathan from the Precog team were the judges for the Judges Choice award. Precog and GNIP sponsored the event and the new Boulder Riverside donated the space. Watch the timelapse video below to see how the custom-made trophies were built!

Here are the presentations from the students and from the tech companies

Congratulations to the winners of the Big Data Science Fair!

1. Judges Choice: “Aggregated Entertainment” Greg Guyles
2. The Mad Scientist: “What Hockey Fans are Saying” Jeffrey Gunderson
3. Most Impactful Insight: “Aggregated Entertainment” Greg Guyles
4. The Creative Champion: “Feed For iPhone: Deals Culled from Social Media Worldwide” Tagwhat

As part of Big Data Week, we will be on the panel at Big Data & Coffee at TechStars next Tuesday, April 23 from 8-10am. Come over for free bagels & coffee at TechStars!

Get your day started by listening to an exciting panel of big movers and business owners involved in Big Data in the Denver/Boulder Metro region as well as from San Francisco. These Big Data leaders will not only share what they are doing individually within their own businesses and organizations to leverage “lessons learned” from past IT business cycles but also speak to how Big Data can be used as a catalyst to build a strong, profitable, and sustainable Information Technology and R&D ecosystem here in the Rockies that contributes globally. Register here!

PANEL MEMBERS:
John De Goes, CEO & CTO – Precog
Jim Franklin, CEO – SendGrid
Narenedra Patil, SVP Marketing – NGData
Ken Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Chair of Computer Science – CU Boulder
Christian Macy, Owner and Entrepreneur – Boulder Fuse

We hope to see next Tuesday morning at TechStars. Don’t forget to save your spot and register here.

Can you open peoples eyes with data? Whether you’re mapping the ocean floor, looking for a cure for a disease, or trying to recommend products to customers, big data is changing how we solve problems in the world!

Join us next Monday, April 22 from 5-7pm for the Big Data Science Fair to see dozens of big data visualizations and projects at the new Riverside Fuse co-working space in Boulder, Colorado. There will be a mix of University of Colorado graduate students and technology companies showing how they are using big data to uncover the answers to questions and solve problems. We are sponsoring this event along with our friends over at GNIP.

You’ll be able to walk around and vote on your mobile phone via text message to nominate presentations for awards such as Impactful Insight, Creative Champion and Judges Choice. The trophies are handmade (see photo below) and additional prizes were donated by our friends at Quick Left.

Presenters:

• Over 15 University of Colorado graduate students from Professor Tom Yeh�s Big Data class will present their semester projects.
• Local Companies: Precog, Gnip, Trueffect, Tagwhat, Geosales, RoseBT and more!

Details:

• Free Pizza, Beer, and Drinks!
• Bring your cell phone so that you can text to vote and nominate your favorite presentations for prizes!
• Register for this FREE event at http://bigdatasciencefair.eventbrite.com/</a></li>

We hope to see you next Monday night! Don’t forget to sign up here.