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Big data, cool kids
My data’s bigger than yours! The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of...
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By Milind Bhandarka, Chaitan Baru, Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess, and Dr. Tilmann Rabl Big data systems are characterized by their flexibility in processing diverse data genres, such as transaction...
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Russia’s railway gauge is different from Western Europe’s. At the border of the former Soviet states, the Russian gauge of 1.524m meets the European & American ‘Standard’ gauge of 1.435m. The...
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Fruit or mobile device: learning concepts through connections
Social media gives us the power to share content and engage with a wide range of internet users. As a person or brand, we are often concerned with who we are talking to and how we can better serve our...
View ArticleKeep your data science efforts from derailing
By Marck Vaisman and Sean Murphy Is your organization considering embracing data science? If so, we would like to give you some helpful advice on organizational and technical issues to consider before...
View ArticleWho do you trust? You are surrounded by bots.
By Lutz Finger In the Matrix, the idea of a computer algorithm determining what we think may seemed far-fetched. Really? Far-fetched? Let’s look at some numbers. About half of all Americans get their...
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Sketching techniques for real-time big data
By Bahman Bahmani Bahman Bahmani In many modern web and big data applications the data arrives in a streaming fashion and needs to be processed on the fly. In these applications, the data is usually...
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Tips and Tricks for Debugging Distributed Systems
By Philip Zeyliger I’m talking on Wednesday at Strata about Tips and Tricks for Debugging Distributed Systems. You should come check it out. As a preview, let’s talk about two pretty pictures. Network...
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Pursuing data science as a second profession
Yogi Saxena is not one to back down from a challenge. The distance runner ran in his first marathon just two years ago in order to win a bet. Next month, he competes in another grueling marathon, his...
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On the importance of imagination in data science
Amy Heineike According to Amy Heineike, the Director of Mathematics at Quid, there’s nothing like having a fresh dataset in R and knowing how to use it. “You can add a few lines of code and discover...
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