I had a series of conversations with a few lead developers and users of Apache Spark, at the recent Spark Summit NYC conference. You can view them on Youtube or using the player below:
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Coming full circle with Bigtable and HBase
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Michael Stack on HBase past, present, and future. [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] Subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data and data science. At least once a year, I sit down with Michael Stack, engineer at Cloudera,Continue reading “Coming full circle with Bigtable and HBase”
Spark Summit East panel
Here’s a video of our well-received panel from a few weeks ago, featuring Abhishek Mehta , Tresata – Founder & CEO George Mathew , Alteryx – President & COO Patrick Wendell , Databricks – Co-founder Martin Van Ryswyk , DataStax – VP of Engineering
Time-turner: Strata San Jose 2015, day 2
[Our friends at Dato created an interesting content-based, Strata session recommender. Check it out here.] There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions. But imagine I had a time-turner necklace and could actually “attend” 2 (maybe 3) sessions happening at the sameContinue reading “Time-turner: Strata San Jose 2015, day 2”
Time-turner: Strata San Jose 2015, day 1
[Our friends at Dato created an interesting content-based, Strata session recommender. Check it out here.] There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions. But imagine I had a time-turner necklace and could actually “attend” 2 (maybe 3) sessions happening at the sameContinue reading “Time-turner: Strata San Jose 2015, day 1”
Hardcore Data Science: 2015 California
Ben Recht and I hosted another great edition of Hardcore Data Science yesterday. From the very first talk, the room was full, the audience was attentive, and the energy in the room was high. It remained that way throughout the day. This time around, I spent more time documenting the day on Twitter – enjoy!Continue reading “Hardcore Data Science: 2015 California”
Clustering bitcoin accounts using heuristics
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: we’ll explore present and future applications of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies at our upcoming Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain on Jan. 27, 2015, in San Francisco. A few data scientists are starting to play around with cryptocurrency data, and as bitcoinContinue reading “Clustering bitcoin accounts using heuristics”
Regulation and decentralization: Defending the blockchain
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: our O’Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain will take place on January 17, 2015, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Andreas Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Naval Ravikant, and Bill Janeway are but a few of the confirmed speakers for the event. LearnContinue reading “Regulation and decentralization: Defending the blockchain”
Hardcore Data Science day: Strata+Hadoop World 2015
My co-organizer Ben Recht and I are proud to announce the return of Hardcore Data Science day to Strata+Hadoop World in California. We have outstanding speakers – 11 talks in total – and I expect the track to sell out (as it has done in the past). Deep Learning enthusiasts will enjoy sessions on itsContinue reading “Hardcore Data Science day: Strata+Hadoop World 2015”
Decoding bitcoin and the blockchain
[A version of this post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] When the creators of bitcoin solved the “double spend” problem in a decentralized manner, they introduced techniques that have implications far beyond digital currency. Our newly announced one-day event — Bitcoin & the Blockchain: An O’Reilly Radar Summit — is in line withContinue reading “Decoding bitcoin and the blockchain”