In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
Very interesting interview with Laszlo Block, senior vice president of people operations at Google. Here are some of my favorite bits. Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google...
View ArticleGitHub’s Data Challenge II winners announced
GitHub, being a massive data store, is constantly looking for new and improved ways of extracting knowledge from its data. In April we announced the second annual GitHub data challenge. [...] After...
View Articleπfs – the data-free filesystem!
πfs – the data-free filesystem! πfs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! You’ll never run out of space again –...
View ArticleECharts 2.0 – an Open Source charts solution from the Baidu team
ECharts 2.0 – an Open Source charts solution from the Baidu team
View ArticleFree Data Science Books
I came across a collection of free data science books: Pulled from the web, here is a great collection of eBooks (most of which have a physical version that you can purchase on Amazon) written on the...
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400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or...
Here is an interesting bit of research – do people prefer tabs or spaces when programming the most popular languages? Tabs or spaces. We are going to parse a billion files among 14 programming...
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Amazon Snowmobile – a truck with up to 100 Petabytes of storage
Back in my college days, I had a professor who frequently used Andrew Tanenbaum‘s quote in the networking class: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the...
View ArticleGrakn and Graql – a database for AI
From the grakn.ai website: Grakn is a distributed hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems. Grakn enables machines to manage complex data that serves as a knowledge base for...
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A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018
A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018 looks at 6 most popular business intelligence and data visualization tools and compares pros, cons, features, pricing and more....
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Registry of Open Data on AWS
AWS News Blog covers the Registry of Open Data on AWS: Almost a decade ago, my colleague Deepak Singh introduced the AWS Public Datasets in his post Paging Researchers, Analysts, and Developers. I’m...
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Metabase – Open Source business intelligence and analytics
Metabase is an Open Source business intelligence and analytics tool. It supports a variety of databases and services as sources for data, and provides a number of data querying and processing tools....
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Cyprus National Internet Portal for Open Data
It is via this Cyprus Mail article that I’ve learned that not only Cyprus has an official Open Data portal, but that it’s also the best in Europe: Cyprus is one of the top five European Union...
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Data Science Cheatsheets
Here’s a good collection of cheatsheets for anyone involved with Big Data and machine learning. Whether you are already well versed in the subject, or just starting, I’m sure you’ll find something...
View ArticleECharts 2.0 – an Open Source charts solution from the Baidu team
ECharts 2.0 – an Open Source charts solution from the Baidu team
View ArticleFree Data Science Books
I came across a collection of free data science books: Pulled from the web, here is a great collection of eBooks (most of which have a physical version that you can purchase on Amazon) written on the...
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400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or...
Here is an interesting bit of research – do people prefer tabs or spaces when programming the most popular languages? Tabs or spaces. We are going to parse a billion files among 14 programming...
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Amazon Snowmobile – a truck with up to 100 Petabytes of storage
Back in my college days, I had a professor who frequently used Andrew Tanenbaum‘s quote in the networking class: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the...
View ArticleGrakn and Graql – a database for AI
From the grakn.ai website: Grakn is a distributed hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems. Grakn enables machines to manage complex data that serves as a knowledge base for...
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A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018
A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018 looks at 6 most popular business intelligence and data visualization tools and compares pros, cons, features, pricing and more....
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