This week, as usual, there is much more to read somewhere else than on my own blog.“Average number of languages spoken in different countries”...
0 replies - 1380 views - 03/03/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
The ETS modelling framework developed in my 2002 IJF paper (with Koehler, Snyder and Grose), and in my 2008...
0 replies - 1088 views - 03/03/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles
The terms covariant and contravariant come up in many contexts. An earlier post discussed how the terms are used in programming and...
0 replies - 1529 views - 03/02/13 by John Cook in Articles
Intel announced this week its Big Data strategy with its crown jewel their own Hadoop distribution. Many people will be surprised that a chipmaker wants to be...
0 replies - 2352 views - 02/28/13 by Maarten Ectors in Articles
In February 2013, I was at ApacheCon NA 2013
in Portland, Oregon, USA. It was a small, but great conference. I met
so many awesome Apache experts and...
0 replies - 1038 views - 02/28/13 by Kai Wähner in Articles
The job of Bishop of Rome – i.e. the Pope – has usually been considered a life-long commitment. There have been 266 popes since 32 A.D....
0 replies - 1577 views - 02/28/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Introduction
R is a programming language and a software suite used for data analysis, statistical computing and data visualization. It is highly extensible...
0 replies - 4315 views - 02/27/13 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles
Pick a number x between 0 and 1. Then repeatedly replace x with 4x(1-x). For almost all starting values of x, the result exhibits...
0 replies - 436 views - 02/27/13 by John Cook in Articles
In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, this panel of CTOs from AppNexus, adMarketplace, Tapad, x+1 and Aerospike discussed issues and best practices in...
0 replies - 1206 views - 02/27/13 by Claire Umeda in Articles
In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, this panel of CTOs from AppNexus, adMarketplace, Tapad, x+1 and Aerospike discussed issues and best practices in...
0 replies - 1719 views - 02/26/13 by Claire Umeda in Articles
When working with MapReduce one of the challenges that is encountered early-on is determining how to make your third-part JAR’s available to the map and...
0 replies - 1826 views - 02/26/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles
This is the second part of my text processing series. In this blog, we'll look into how text documents can be stored in a form that can be easily...
0 replies - 1414 views - 02/26/13 by Ricky Ho in Articles
Mainstream Big Data is all about MapReduce, but when looking at real-time data, limitations of that approach are starting to show. In this post, I’ll review...
0 replies - 19644 views - 02/25/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles
The first interaction that a customer has with your e-commerce web site is with the search box itself. So it is of utmost importance to make the user...
0 replies - 1178 views - 02/25/13 by John Berryman in Articles
The post titled Installing Packages described the basics of package installation with R. The process is wonderfully simple when everything goes...
0 replies - 1045 views - 02/25/13 by Jonathan Callahan in Articles
