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  • Surfacing anomalies and patterns in Machine Data

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] I’ve been noticing that many interesting big data systems are coming out of IT operations. These are systems that…

  • Big Data and Advertising: In the trenches

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] The $35B merger of Omnicom and Publicis put the convergence of Big Data and Advertising1 in the front pages…

  • Near realtime, streaming, and perpetual analytics

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Simple example of a near realtime app built with Hadoop and HBase Over the past year Hadoop emerged from…

  • Tightly integrated engines streamline Big Data analysis

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] The choice of tools for data science includes1 factors like scalability, performance, and convenience. A while back I noted…

  • Data scientists tackle the analytic lifecycle

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] What happens after data scientists build analytic models? Model deployment, monitoring, and maintenance are topics that haven’t received as…

  • Pattern-detection and Twitter’s Streaming API

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Researchers and companies who need social media data frequently turn to Twitter’s API to access a random sample of…