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Single server systems can tackle Big Data
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] About a year ago a blog post from SAP posited1 that when it comes to analytics, most companies are…
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The re-emergence of Time-series
[A version of this post appeared on the O’Reilly Strata and Radar blogs.] My first job after leaving academia was as a quant1 for a hedge fund, where I performed…
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Data Science tools: Are you “all in” or do you “mix and match”?
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] An integrated data stack boosts productivity As I noted in my previous post, Python programmers willing to go “all…
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Python data tools just keep getting better
[A version of this post appeared on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Here are a few observations inspired by conversations I had during the just concluded PyData conference1. The Python data…
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No single DBMS will meet all your needs
Only a few years ago many companies that I encountered used MySQL (or Postgres) for everything! Folks got things to work, but had problems running simple queries against their big…
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Data Science Tools: Fast, easy to use, and scalable
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Here are a few observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata Santa Clara conference. Spark…