Category: Data Science
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: I’m always on the lookout for interesting tools and ideas for reproducing and collaborating on long data workflows. Reproducibility and collaboration are topics that we’re following closely at…
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Data Analysis on Streams
If you’re struggling with analyzing streaming data, I have just the event for you. I’ll be hosting a webcast on June 12th, featuring Mikio Braun, co-founder of streamdrill: Analyzing real-time data poses special kinds of challenges,…
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A growing number of applications are being built with Spark
Many more companies are willing to talk about how they’re using Apache Spark in production [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] One of the trends we’re following closely at Strata is…
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Welcome to Intelligence Matters
Casting a critical eye on the exciting developments in the world of AI [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog and Forbes.] Editor’s note: this post was co-authored by Ben Lorica and…
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Network Science Dashboards
Networks graphs can be used as primary visual objects with conventional charts used to supply detailed views [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] With Network Science well on its way to…
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Verticalized Big Data solutions
General-purpose platforms can come across as hammers in search of nails [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As much as I love talking about general-purpose big data platforms and…
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Crowdsourcing Feature discovery
More than algorithms, companies gain access to models that incorporate ideas generated by teams of data scientists [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] Data scientists were among the earliest…
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Instrumenting collaboration tools used in data projects
Built-in audit trails can be useful for reproducing and debugging complex data analysis projects [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] As I noted in a previous post, model building is just…
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2013 Revenue of some startup companies
The chart below is from Wikibon’s estimates1 of the 2013 revenue2 of some Big Data companies. Using d3 I drew a chart that shows 2013 revenue (in millions) from Big Data products and services, as well…
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Interface Languages and Feature Discovery
It’s easier to “discover” features with tools that have broad coverage of the data science workflow [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] Here are a few more observations based…