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Before you interrogate data, you must tame it
IBM, Wolfram|Alpha, Google, Bing, groups at universities, and others are trying to develop algorithms that parse useful information from unstructured data. This limitation in search is a dull pain for...
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One foot in college, one foot in business
In a recent interview, Joe Hellerstein, a professor in the UC Berkeley computer science department, talked about the disconnect between open source innovation and development. The problem, he said,...
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The truth about data: Once it's out there, it's hard to control
The amount of data being produced is increasing exponentially, which raises big questions about security and ownership. Do we need to be more concerned about the information many of us readily give out...
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Big data and the semantic web
On Quora, Gerald McCollum asked if big data and the semantic web were indifferent to each other, as there was little discussion of the semantic web topic at Strata this February. My answer in brief is:...
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There's no such thing as big data
“You know,” said a good friend of mine last week, “there’s really no such thing as big data.” I sighed a bit inside. In the past few years, cloud computing critics have said similar things: that clouds...
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The nexus of data, art and science is where the interesting stuff happens
Jer Thorp (@blprnt), data artist in residence at The New York Times, was tasked a few years ago with designing an algorithm for the placement of the names on the 9/11 memorial. If an algorithm sounds...
View ArticleOracle's Big Data Appliance: what it means
Today, Oracle announced their Big Data Appliance. It couldn’t be a plainer validation of what’s important in big data right now, or where the battle for technology dominance lies. Oracle’s appliance...
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How data and open government are transforming NYC
“In God We Trust,” tweeted New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg this month. “Everyone else, bring data.” Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P., is now in his third term as mayor of the Big...
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Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions
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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...
View ArticleBigData Top 100 Initiative
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...
View ArticleThat’s it — I’m taking my data and going home
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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