Category: Science
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Alibaba ♥ Spark: Next time someone asks you if Apache Spark scales, point them to this recent post by Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba. What particularly caught my eye…
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data (gathered from Scifoo 2014): Filtergraph and the power of visual exploration: A web-based tool for exploring high-dimensional data sets, Filtergraph came out of the lab of Astrophysicist Keivan…
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Big Data systems are making a difference in the fight against cancer
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use…