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BlogsTags > dataImproving options for unlocking your graph dataBy Ben LoricaMay 19, 2013 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 develop analytic tools for graph data sets. GraphLab Inc. will continue to use the open … Strata Week: Are customized Google maps a neutrality win or the next “filter bubble”?By Jenn WebbMay 17, 2013 Google aims for a new level of map customization Google introduced a new version of Google maps at Google I/O this week that learns from each use to customize itself to individual users, adapting based on user clicks and searches. … Google I/O, Big Data Adolescence, Visualization, and the Future of Open SourceBy Adam FlahertyMay 17, 2013 Google I/O: O’Reilly Editor Rachel Roumeliotis reports from the conference floor. Big Data, Cool Kids: Fumbling toward the adolescence of big data tools. Code as Art: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web author Scott Murray on becoming a code artist. … Six disruptive possibilities from big dataBy Jeff NeedhamMay 15, 2013 My new book, Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, is derived directly from my experience as a performance and platform architect in the old enterprise world and the new, Internet-scale world. I pre-date the Hadoop crew at Yahoo!, but … Visualization of the Week: Real-time Wikipedia editsBy Jenn WebbMay 15, 2013 Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi have put together an addictive visualization of real-time edits on Wikipedia, mapped across the world. Every time an edit is made, the user’s location and the entry they edited are listed along with a corresponding … Big data, cool kidsBy Edd DumbillMay 14, 2013 The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigies of the data scene show great promise … Four short links: 14 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 14, 2013 Behind the Banner — visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you. They pass around your data as enthusiastically as a pipe at a Grateful Dead concert, and you’ve … Big data, cool kidsBy Edd DumbillMay 13, 2013 The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigies of the data scene show great promise … Genomics and Privacy at the CrossroadsBy James TurnerMay 13, 2013 Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … Evaluating machine learning systems: Kaggle’s not enoughBy Beau CroninMay 11, 2013 There is a tremendous amount of commercial attention on machine learning (ML) methods and applications. This includes product and content recommender systems, predictive models for churn and lead scoring, systems to assist in medical diagnosis, social network sentiment analysis, and … 11 Essential Features that Visual Analysis Tools Should HaveBy Ben LoricaMay 11, 2013 After recently playing with SAS Visual Analytics, I’ve been thinking about tools for visual analysis. By visual analysis I mean the type of analysis most recently popularized by Tableau, QlikView, and Spotfire: you encounter a data set for the first … Strata Week: President Obama opens up U.S. government dataBy Jenn WebbMay 10, 2013 U.S. government data to be machine-readable, Nicole Wong may fill new White House chief privacy officer role The U.S. government took major steps this week to open up government data to the public. U.S. President Obama signed an executive order … Four short links: 10 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2013 The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative. … Genomics and Privacy at the CrossroadsBy James TurnerMay 9, 2013 Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … Steering the ship that is data scienceBy Q Ethan McCallumMay 8, 2013 Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case. It’s easy (if … Another serving of data skepticismBy Mike LoukidesMay 8, 2013 I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another post … Visualization of the Week: Building collapse rescue effortsBy Jenn WebbMay 8, 2013 In the wake of recent building collapses, the BBC addressed the question of what goes into the rescue efforts by creating an interactive guide outlining how rescuers approach a collapsed building. Using information from the International Rescue Corps, the BBC … On becoming a code artistBy Ann SpencerMay 7, 2013 Scott Murray, a code artist, has written Interactive Data Visualization for the Web for nonprogrammers. In this interview, Scott provides some insights on what inspired him to write an introduction to D3 for artists, graphic designers, journalists, researchers, or anyone … A different take on data skepticismBy Beau CroninMay 7, 2013 Recently, the Mathbabe (aka Cathy O’Neil) vented some frustration about the pitfalls in applying even simple machine learning (ML) methods like k-nearest neighbors. As data science is democratized, she worries that naive practitioners will shoot themselves in the foot because these tools can … Steering the ship that is data scienceBy Q Ethan McCallumMay 7, 2013 Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case. … Another Serving of Data SkepticismBy Mike LoukidesMay 6, 2013 I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another … Upward Mobility: Unit Testing Core DataBy James TurnerMay 6, 2013 One of the more common issues that arises in creating OCUnit tests in iOS is how to test code that uses Core Data. There are several challenges, but with a little foresight, you can be sailing right along. The first … Scalable streaming analytics using a single-serverBy Ben LoricaMay 5, 2013 For many organizations real-time1 analytics entails complex event processing systems (CEP) or newer distributed stream processing frameworks like Storm, S4, or Spark Streaming. The latter have become more popular because they are able to scale (ingest) massive amounts of data, … Strata Week: The power of the Internet, wielded by machines and thingsBy Jenn WebbMay 3, 2013 Soon, everything will be an Internet platform Ben Schiller at Fast Company took a look this week at a recent report by Jon Bruner on the industrial Internet. “According to Jon Bruner [the industrial Internet] is ‘machines becoming nodes on … Leading IndicatorsBy Mike LoukidesMay 2, 2013 In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the outside, possibly as a potential employee, what can … Conquering iOS Core DataBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 2, 2013 Joshua Smith (@kognate) is a Lead Mobile Developer at iRx Reminder, frequent Cocoa Conference speaker and author of an upcoming book with O’Reilly on core data. We recently sat down to talk about core data and its complexities. What exactly … Visualization of the Week: A DDoS attack on VideoLAN downloads infrastructureBy Jenn WebbMay 1, 2013 In the wake of a recent DDoS attack on open source software distributor VideoLAN, developer Ludovic Fauvet created a video visualization to show what the attack looked like. As Ryan W. Neal notes in a post at International Business Times, … Linking open data to augmented intelligence and the economyBy Alex HowardApril 30, 2013 After years of steady growth, open data is now entering into public discourse, particularly in the public sector. If President Barack Obama decides to put the White House’s long-awaited new open data mandate before the nation this spring, it will … Leading IndicatorsBy Mike LoukidesApril 30, 2013 In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the outside, possibly as a potential employee, what can … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an unfamiliar practice in genetics. Plenty of cell … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of genetic and pharmaceutical innovation are stuttering for … Pricing decisions are going to be made whether you have analytics behind it or notBy Janaya WilliamsApril 29, 2013 In his role as chief scientist at Atlanta-based consulting firm Revenue Analytics, Jon Higbie helps clients make sound pricing decisions for everything from hotel rooms, to movie theater popcorn, to that carton of OJ in the fridge. And in the … Tachyon: An open source, distributed, fault-tolerant, in-memory file systemBy Ben LoricaApril 28, 2013 In earlier posts I’ve written about how Spark and Shark run much faster than Hadoop and Hive by1 caching data sets in-memory. But suppose one wants to share datasets across jobs/frameworks, while retaining speed gains garnered by being in-memory? An … Strata Week: Revolutionizing human resource management with work-force scienceBy Jenn WebbApril 26, 2013 Big data replaces gut instinct in HR management In a post at the New York Times, Steve Lohr took a look this week at a new data discipline: work-force science. The field pairs big data with human resources to help … A Day at the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits ConferenceBy James TurnerApril 26, 2013 The GET (Genomes, Environments and Traits) conference is a confluence of parties interested in the advances being made in human genomes, the measurement of how the environment impacts individuals, and how the two come together to produce traits. Sponsored by … Every leader has their “how I got here” storyBy O'Reilly StrataApril 25, 2013 On Goldstein, McCallum, and their upcoming book, Making Analytics Work: Case by Case By Alex Howard People have been crunching numbers to understand government since the first time an official used an abacus to compare one season’s grain harvest against … Do publishers have the right people on the bus?By Michael FoyApril 25, 2013 I know from talking to many of my clients that most have read Jim Collins’ book ‘Good to Great’. I have also been inspired by his research into what makes great companies great. Many of you will recall an article … Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011By Jenn WebbApril 24, 2013 The recent terror attack at the Boston Marathon prompted the Guardian’s Simon Rogers (who will soon be Twitter’s Simon Rogers) to look into the history of attacks on U.S. soil. Using data from the START Global Terrorism Database, Rogers mapped … Four short links: 23 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2013 Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive. (via Ed Vielmetti) … Simpler workflow tools enable the rapid deployment of modelsBy Ben LoricaApril 21, 2013 Data science often depends on data pipelines, that involve acquiring, transforming, and loading data. (If you’re fortunate most of the data you need is already in usable form.) Data needs to be assembled and wrangled, before it can be visualized … A different take on data skepticismBy Beau CroninApril 19, 2013 Recently, the Mathbabe (aka Cathy O’Neil) vented some frustration about the pitfalls in applying even simple machine learning (ML) methods like k-nearest neighbors. As data science is democratized, she worries that naive practitioners will shoot themselves in the foot because … Strata Week: Movers and shakers on the data journalism frontBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Reuters launches Connected China, Pew instructs on downloading its data, and Twitter gets a data editor Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang took a look this week at a data journalism effort by Reuters, the Connected China visualization application. Qiu and … Four short links: 19 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 19, 2013 Bruce Sterling on Disruption — If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression. Slow first 25% but then it … Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweetsBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying his skills to telling data-driven … What is probabilistic programming?By Beau CroninApril 18, 2013 Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can we expect from this research? Will this effort pay off? How long … Sprinting toward the future of JamaicaBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Creating the conditions for startups to form is now a policy imperative for governments around the world, as Julian Jay Robinson, minister of state in Jamaica’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, reminded the attendees at the “Developing the … Four short links: 18 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 18, 2013 The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto — I can’t assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from … Visualization of the Week: Commuting ParisBy Jenn WebbApril 17, 2013 The team at Dataveyes has launched its latest project, Metropolitain.io, an interactive map visualizing the Paris metro system. Using data provided by Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports (RATP) and from Isokron, the team visualized the metro system from both a … Four short links: 16 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 16, 2013 Triage — iPhone app to quickly triage your email in your downtime. See also the backstory. Awesome UI. Webcam Pulse Detector — I was wondering how long it would take someone to do the Eulerian video magnification in real code. … Single server systems can tackle big dataBy Ben LoricaApril 13, 2013 About a year ago a blog post from SAP posited1 that when it comes to analytics, most companies are in the multi-terabyte range: data sizes that are well-within the scope of distributed in-memory solutions like Spark, SAP HANA, ScaleOut Software, … 1 to 50 of 1675 Next Stay Connected
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