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The Romney Campaign's Big Data Fiasco

In this great article on the IT project fiasco in Mitt Romney's campaign, there's a quote that is representative of much of what you see around...

1 replies - 4263 views - 11/17/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

Let's Build Better Election Visualizations

In the wake of the U.S. election, a ton of different outcome visualizations have made the rounds online. The traditional winner-take-all electoral map gets the...

0 replies - 4708 views - 11/16/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Weekly Poll: The CI Landscape

For this week's poll, we're taking a look at continuous integration servers and what we use them for. You'll get to review results instantly after submission....

1 replies - 7751 views - 11/15/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Building a Naive Bayes Classifier in the Browser Using Map-Reduce

The last decade of Javascript performance improvements in the browser provide exciting possibilities for distributed computing....

0 replies - 3540 views - 11/14/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles

Testability and Cost of Change

That ThoughtWorks consultants, with others, were at Google for a year and a half on a mission to help socialize better testing practice, is now a matter of...

0 replies - 4967 views - 11/14/12 by Paul Hammant in Articles

Election Analytics, Tetris, and More Data Links of the Week

So, Movember finally arrived (seehttp://ca.movember.com/). So far, not a lot of articles about moustaches. But I should find some by the end of the month!...

0 replies - 1949 views - 11/14/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Faunus Provides Big Graph Data Analytics

Faunus is an Apache 2 licensed distributed graph analytics engine that is optimized for batch processing graphs represented...

0 replies - 2665 views - 11/13/12 by Marko Rodriguez in Articles

Complexity and Brain Size

The last year or so I’ve been leading a small team of developers. We’ve been working on a project that involves genomics and molecular biology,...

0 replies - 2659 views - 11/13/12 by Ola Bini in Articles

A Big Data Quadfecta: (Cassandra + Storm + Kafka) + ElasticSearch

In my previous post, I discussed our BigData Trifecta, which includes Storm, Kafka and Cassandra. Kafka played the role of our work/data queue. ...

0 replies - 4901 views - 11/12/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

A Simple Way to Build an ExtJS 3.4 Scatter Chart

ProblemYou want to display a scatter chart in ExtJS 3.4.SolutionUse the Ext.chart.Chart class, and make the lines invisible.DiscussionThis example works by...

0 replies - 2014 views - 11/12/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles

Back to Basics – Good Comments are Targeted Comments

 I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there...

0 replies - 601 views - 11/11/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

The Jenkins Bell Rings …

  We all love webapps, but in the former days applications have done so much more. They were integrated into our desktops, they...

0 replies - 3712 views - 11/11/12 by Daniel Bartl in Articles

Email Marketing is a Predictive Analytics Problem

In his book Permission Marketing, Seth Godin referred to email marketing as “the most personal advertising medium in history”.  That was...

0 replies - 2639 views - 11/10/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

Testing Hadoop Programs with MRUnit

This post will take a slight detour from implementing the patterns found in Data-Intensive Processing with MapReduce to discuss something equally...

0 replies - 3326 views - 11/09/12 by Bill Bejeck in Articles

10 Software Documentation Best Practices

Perform documentation as required (e.g. %10 of total production time). No documentation is never a good solution as much as excessive documentation. It...

0 replies - 4286 views - 11/09/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles