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I Have All the Data in the World, Now What?

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 - 1509 views - 05/10/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Review: Hadoop Beginner's Guide

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 - 4497 views - 05/10/13 by Charles Anderson in Articles

Data News: "Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know" and More

Some posts and articles, discovered this week on the internet:“3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go...

0 replies - 1686 views - 05/08/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path with Djikstra

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 - 5249 views - 05/07/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Search Is Eating The World

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 - 5153 views - 05/07/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles

LaTex in R Graphs

A nice post was recently published on the rsnippets blog, about the tikzDevice R package. This package is – indeed – awesome. Even if it has...

0 replies - 1240 views - 05/07/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Hebrew Search with ElasticSearch

Hebrew search is not an easy task, and HebMorph is a project I started several years ago to address that problem. After a certain period of inactivity I'm back...

0 replies - 1804 views - 05/06/13 by Itamar Syn-hershko in Articles

Animation from R to LaTeX

Just a short post, to share some codes used to generate animated graphs, with R. Assume that we would like to illustrate the law of large number, and the...

0 replies - 1535 views - 05/06/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Find the Data, Aggregate the Data, Make the Data Useful

I was in New York in March, taking part in GigaOM’sStructure:Data event. As usual on these trips, I spent the day before the event walking around the...

0 replies - 2094 views - 05/05/13 by Paul Miller in Articles

Using Scala To Work With Hadoop

Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop.  Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop...

0 replies - 2101 views - 05/05/13 by Joe Stein in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Data Warehouse and Legacy Operations

A data warehouse preserves data.It can be argued that a data warehouse preserves only data. This, however, is false.To an extent, a data warehouse...

0 replies - 2390 views - 05/04/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

What the New IT Model Should Be

A New IT model is required to reduce delivery time and accelerate business agility. The New IT Delivery model strives to achieve open collaboration,...

0 replies - 1859 views - 05/03/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles

Big Data and the Human Right to Education

Day to day, it's easy to lose sight of what it means to live in the future we've made, to take it for granted. Or, put another way: We were promised flying...

0 replies - 1967 views - 05/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Sorry, You Can't Simply Hire a Data Scientist

Data scientists are in short supply! Or at least that’s a headline you can find nearly everywhere. There are people trying desperately to hire them and also...

0 replies - 3976 views - 05/03/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

BigQuery: Data Warehouse in the Clouds

There are a lot of changes occurring these days with the Big Data revolution such as cloud computing, NoSQL, Columnar stores, and virtualization just to...

1 replies - 2157 views - 05/03/13 by Sam Taha in Articles