Several interesting posts, here and there, this weekFrom April 26th until May 7th, 1986, in Europe, via http://ucsusa.org/news/… see“Why have so...
0 replies - 630 views - 05/17/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
I made great money in college recruiting people for focus groups. Those were tough days for students in a state (New York) where the minimum wage was only...
0 replies - 1861 views - 05/17/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
The most interesting post read those past days is, without any doubt,“Liberal Wonk Blogging Could Be Your...
0 replies - 705 views - 05/16/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Pearson is striving to accomplish the ambitious goal of providing an education to anyone, anywhere on the planet. New data processing technologies and...
0 replies - 962 views - 05/15/13 by Marko Rodriguez in Articles
Though there is some decent documentation, I found that setting up Hive with a HBase back-end to be somewhat fiddly. Hopefully this guide will help you...
0 replies - 2199 views - 05/14/13 by Chase Seibert in Articles
Eating your own dog food is important in all walks of life: if you are a chef you should taste your own food; if you are a doctor you should treat yourself...
1 replies - 1735 views - 05/14/13 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
Albert Einstein, you may have heard, was a clever man. He scribbled equations on blackboards, thought big thoughts, and all of that. But allegedly, he...
0 replies - 1688 views - 05/13/13 by Paul Miller in Articles
In my courses on R, I usually show how to insert a picture as a background for a graph. But it is also to see the picture as an object, and to insert it in a...
0 replies - 571 views - 05/12/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Matt Schumpert took the stage at the InterOp Big Data Workshop in Las Vegas yesterday to talk about the myths and realities of Big Data. Matt is...
0 replies - 2882 views - 05/11/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
Series of links to (interesting) posts and articles“Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math...
0 replies - 849 views - 05/11/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
The Big Data Workshop at InterOp Las Vegas wrapped up the morning with a presentation on Big Data requirements by John West, CTO and Founder of Fabless...
1 replies - 1439 views - 05/10/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
Hadoop Beginner's Guide by Garry TurkingtonISBN: 1849517304Hadoop Beginner's Guide is, as the title suggests, a new introductory book to the Hadoop...
0 replies - 4325 views - 05/10/13 by Charles Anderson in Articles
Some posts and articles, discovered this week on the internet:“3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go...
0 replies - 1654 views - 05/08/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Tonight I decided my study time would be to sit down and implement Djikstra’s algorithm in Python to help me understand it. When coding up a solution to a...
0 replies - 5171 views - 05/07/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles
Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop of the Lucene/Solr...
0 replies - 5049 views - 05/07/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles
