Category: Marketing

  • 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 of business publications. Adtech2 companies have…

  • 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 tweets. Those who can afford to…

  • Moving from Batch to Continuous Computing at Yahoo!

    [A version of this post appeared on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] My favorite session at the recent Hadoop Summit was a keynote by Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, Senior Fellow & VP Platforms at Yahoo! He gave a nice…