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by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
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by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem
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by Bob DuCharme
Second Edition
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by Kristina Chodorow
Second Edition
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by C.J. Date
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by Stacia Misner
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by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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by Rick Copeland
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by Robin Nixon
Second Edition
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by Tom White
Third Edition
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by Jonathan Gennick
Third Edition
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by Stuart Gripman, Susan Prosser
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by Lynn Beighley
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by Alan Beaulieu
Second Edition
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by Anthony Molinaro
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by Kristina Chodorow
Second Edition
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by Baron Schwartz, Vadim Tkachenko, Peter Zaitsev
Third Edition
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by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Fifth Edition
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by Jason Rutherglen, Dean Wampler, Edward Capriolo
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by Lars George

Data News

Visualization of the Week: Booze, tipple, imbibe, or whatever you’d like to call it

By Ann Spencer
June 19, 2013

Sooooooo. This is what happens when Jenn Webb attends Velocity this week and I briefly step in to cover the Strata Visualization of the Week element. I could have focused on the Governments Search for Google Data visualization from Chris …

HBase looks more appealing to data scientists

By Ben Lorica
June 16, 2013

When Hadoop users need to develop apps that are “latency sensitive”, many of them turn to HBase1. Its tight integration with Hadoop makes it a popular data store for real-time applications. When I attended the first HBase conference last year, …

Strata Week: Why we should care about what the NSA may or may not be doing

By Jenn Webb
June 14, 2013

It’s a question of power, not privacy — and what is the NSA really doing? In the wake of the leaked NSA data-collection programs, the Pew Research Center conducted a national survey to measure American’s response. The survey found that …

Data Journalists Gather, Transparency, and Data Viz

By Janaya Williams
June 13, 2013

Data journalism is becoming a truly global practice.  Data journalists from the UK, China, and the US are sharing data-oriented best practices, insights, and tools. Journalists in Latin America are meeting this week to push for more transparency and access …

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Data Experts

Ben Jones Ben Jones Ben Jones is the Tableau Public product marketing manager at Tableau Software in Seattle and he is also a data blogger at DataRemixed. Ben is currently working on his first book with O'Reilly, "Communicating Data with Tableau". Ben holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BSME, UCLA 2000) and Business (MBA, California…

Matthew Russell Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee; and serves Digital Reasoning Systems as the Director of Advanced Technology. Hacking and writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.

Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan started computer programming at an early age. In 2005 he joined CustomWare, a professional services organization that specializes in the technology of fast-growing software companies, and personally established the training departments of Atlassian, Zendesk, and GoodData. In 2013, Stafford joined one of the world's leading consumer electronics…

Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri is the owner / CEO of Fundoo Solutions (http://www.befundoo.com), where he splits his time between working on innovative and exciting new products for the Indian markets, and consulting about and running workshops on AngularJS. Prior to Fundoo Solutions, Shyam completed his MBA from the prestigious Indian School of…

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Best of Strata Rx 2012: Disruptors: What Healthcare Will Look Like In 2020
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July 2, 2013 - 05AM PT,


Best of Strata + Hadoop World 2012: Analyzing Millions of GitHub Commits
August 8, 2013 - 05AM PT,


Community Clouds for Cancer Genomics: Lessons Learned from Bionimbus
August 20, 2013 - 10AM PT,


From Macro Data to Micro Story
August 22, 2013 - 10AM PT,


Why Facebook and Google Missed the Boat on Healthcare
September 4, 2013 - 10AM PT,


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