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  • Deep Learning oral traditions

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] This past week I had the good fortune of attending two great talks1 on Deep Learning, given by Googlers Ilya Sutskever and Jeff Dean. Much…

  • Stream Mining essentials

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] A series of open source, distributed stream processing frameworks have become essential components in many big data technology stacks. Apache Storm remains the most popular,…

  • Semi-automatic method for grading a million homework assignments

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] One of the hardest things about teaching a large class is grading exams and homework assignments. In my teaching days a “large class” was only…

  • Gaining access to the best machine-learning methods

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog and Forbes.] For companies in the early stages of grappling with big data, the analytic lifecycle (model building, deployment, maintenance) can be daunting. In earlier…

  • Stream Processing and Mining just got more interesting

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Largely unknown outside data engineering circles, Apache Kafka is one of the more popular open source, distributed computing projects. Many data engineers I speak with…

  • How Twitter monitors millions of time-series

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] One of the keys to Twitter’s ability to process 500 millions tweets daily is a software development process that values monitoring and measurement. A recent…

  • Data Analysis: Just one component of the Data Science workflow

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Judging from articles in the popular press the term data scientist has increasingly come to refer to someone who specializes in data analysis (statistics, machine-learning,…

  • Running batch and long-running, highly available service jobs on the same cluster

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] As organizations increasingly rely on large computing clusters, tools for leveraging and efficiently managing compute resources become critical. Specifically, tools that allow multiple services and…

  • Data analysis tools target non-experts

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] A new set of tools make it easier to do a variety of data analysis tasks. Some require no programming, while other tools make it…

  • Interactive Big Data analysis using approximate answers

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Interactive query analysis for (Hadoop scale data) has recently attracted the attention of many companies and open source developers – some examples include Cloudera’s Impala,…