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Counting Triangles Smarter: or, How to Beat Big Data Vendors at Their Own Game

A few months ago, I discovered Vertica’s “Counting Triangles”-article through Prismatic. The blog post describes a number of...

0 replies - 1656 views - 02/25/13 by Davy Suvee in Articles

Lucene 4 Finite State Automata In 10 Minutes (Intro & Tutorial)

This article is intended to help you bootstrap your ability to work with Finite State Automata (note automata == plural of automaton). Automata are a unique...

0 replies - 1397 views - 02/25/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles

JBoss BRMS - Update on How to Create Maven Artifacts

Last month I showed you how to generate / extract the maven artifacts you might need for your JBoss BRMS product development projects. This included a...

0 replies - 1307 views - 02/24/13 by Eric D. Schabell in Articles

Removing White Space Around R Figures

When I want to insert fig­ures gen­er­ated in R into a LaTeX doc­u­ment, it looks bet­ter if I first remove the white space around...

0 replies - 1393 views - 02/24/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles

Your logs are your data: logstash + elasticsearch

Topic of today's post stays a bit aside from day-to-day coding and development but nonetheless covers a very important subject: our application log files. Our...

0 replies - 5841 views - 02/24/13 by Andriy Redko in Articles

Further Reading on GLMs and Ratemaking

Some articles found in Actuarial journal, on ratemarking,Predictive Modeling—You Mean Actuarial Wizardry?, by Shane...

0 replies - 1293 views - 02/24/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Eclipse RAP 2.0 QuickStart with IntelliJ IDEA

Eclipse RAP 2.0 is finally out! As you probably know, developing Eclipse RAP or RCP applications outside of Eclipse can be challenging. Actually, even...

0 replies - 1631 views - 02/24/13 by Edvin Syse in Articles

Modeling Individual Losses with Mixtures

Usually, the sentence that I keep saying in my regression classes is “please, look at your data“. In our previous post, we’ve been playing like most...

1 replies - 1101 views - 02/23/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

A Little Temporal Feedback When Running Tests

I have been working a lot recently with a bunch of test jobs that are intermittently getting stuck. Now it is possible to work out the point where the problem...

0 replies - 1552 views - 02/23/13 by Gerard Davison in Articles

Bootstrap’s Top 10 Big Data Predictions for This Year, Part 2

Big data is one of the dominant marketing topics of 2013 and Bootstrap believes that every technology related company needs to define their big...

0 replies - 3280 views - 02/23/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles

Collections, meet Expression!

On my current project, we use a lot of data collections. And like in most software projects, the most common (although far from exclusive)...

0 replies - 5314 views - 02/23/13 by Kevin Chabot in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 389 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Why I Write Tests

My tests aren’t for me. They are for you… and you, and you, and you! Writing tests for me isn’t about trying to prove correctness in my program -...

1 replies - 2453 views - 02/22/13 by Jason Whaley in Articles

What Ockham Really Said, the Math of Marital Ruin, and More Data Links

Time to share links to interesting posts I found here and there this week. We should start with“What Ockham really...

0 replies - 1976 views - 02/22/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs

‘Amateurs [musicians] practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong’This witty and motivational...

0 replies - 6554 views - 02/22/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles