Gradient Flow

Tag: search

  • From search to distributed computing to large-scale information extraction

    Subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data and data science. February 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of Hadoop — at a point in time when many IT…

  • Improving options for unlocking your graph data

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] The popular open source project GraphLab received a major boost early this week when a new company comprised of its founding developers, raised funding to…

  • 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 (what are now referred to as)…

  • Mining Time-series with Trillions of Points: Dynamic Time Warping at scale

    Take a similarity measure that’s already well-known to researchers who work with time-series, and devise an algorithm to compute it efficiently at scale. Suddenly intractable problems become tractable, and Big Data mining applications that use the…