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Building a Data Warehouse, Part 4: Extraction, Transformation, and Load

See also:Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema Part III: Location of your data warehouse In Part I we looked...

1 replies - 2845 views - 11/30/12 by Stephen Forte in Articles

Equivalent Form of the Riemann Hypothesis

The famous Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the following not-so-famous conjecture:              For...

0 replies - 2440 views - 11/30/12 by John Cook in Articles

Building a Data Warehouse, Part 3: Location of Your Data Warehouse

See also:Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse...

0 replies - 2587 views - 11/29/12 by Stephen Forte in Articles

This Sample iPad App Works with a JSON-Based Machine Learning System

GoSmarter is a JSon based Machine Learning System that, if given a Natural Language (NLP) Query, will return a list of recommended products. This Machine...

0 replies - 3025 views - 11/29/12 by Krishna Prasad in Articles

Building a Data Warehouse, Part 2: Building a New Schema

See also:Part I: When to build your data warehouse In Part I we looked at when you should build your data warehouse and concluded that you should build it...

0 replies - 3587 views - 11/28/12 by Stephen Forte in Articles

Building a Data Warehouse, Part 1: When to Build

Most developers are scared of “Business Intelligence” or BI. Most think that BI consists of cubes, pivot/drill down apps, and analytical decision support...

1 replies - 4049 views - 11/28/12 by Stephen Forte in Articles

Silly Heat Maps, Significant Stats, and More Data Links of the Week

Some interesting posts and articles found this week:"Academia: Off the tenured...

0 replies - 2122 views - 11/28/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Measuring Software

A while back I read Making Software – it made me disappointed at the state of academic research into the practice of developing software. I just read...

0 replies - 4691 views - 11/28/12 by David Green in Articles

The DZone Community's 2012 Developer Profile

In June 2012, DZone undertook a survey of the DZone community to better understand your experiences as developers and professionals. If you took our survey in...

0 replies - 8151 views - 11/27/12 by Kelly Reiser in Articles

The Rise and Fall of the Third Normal Form

The ideas for relational databases were worked out in the 1970s and the first commercial implementations appeared around 1980. By the 1990’s relational...

0 replies - 3304 views - 11/27/12 by John Cook in Articles

Chart.io Goes Google Analytics, Adds Lots of New Partnerships

I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying...

0 replies - 2071 views - 11/27/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

How to Be Big-Data-Native

Big data has spawned a set of tools that deliver results beyond the buzz. It has started delivering real insights for companies, which result in more effective...

0 replies - 4699 views - 11/27/12 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles

Inspections are not Optional

Every developer is aware that code inspections are possible, some might have experienced the usefulness of code inspections, however, the fact is that...

0 replies - 3508 views - 11/26/12 by Dalip Mahal in Articles

Data-Driven Animation with Edge Animate

This week I demonstrated Edge Animate to two cities in Texas as part of the Create the Web tour. Animations are not something I typically spend a lot...

0 replies - 2551 views - 11/26/12 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Fluentd + Hadoop: Instant Big Data Collection

Fluentd is a JSON-based, open-source log collector originally written at Treasure Data. Fluentd is specifically designed for solving big...

0 replies - 4074 views - 11/26/12 by Sadayuki Furuhashi in Articles