The problem of managing schemas
Schemas inevitably will change — Apache Avro offers an elegant solution.
Data
Our take on the ideas, information, and tools that make data work.
Challenges facing predictive APIs
Solutions to a number of problems must be found to unlock PAPI value.
Scaling NoSQL databases: 5 tips for increasing performance
How NoSQL databases scale vertically and horizontally, and what you should consider when building a DB cluster.
How Flash changes the design of database storage engines
High-performing memory throws many traditional decisions overboard
Building pipelines to facilitate data analysis
A new operator from the magrittr package makes it easier to use R for data analysis.
Active learning: Best practices for creating labeled data sets
Learn simple ways to improve data models by cleaning up and tweaking the distribution of training data.
Ten years of OpenStreetMap
OSM is moving out of its awkward adolescence and into its mature, young adult phase.
Scaling up data frames
New frameworks for interactive business analysis and advanced analytics fuel the rise in tabular data objects.
Why local state is a fundamental primitive in stream processing
What do you get if you cross a distributed database with a stream processing system?
New scalable solutions for data analysis with R
Addressing in-memory limitations and scalability issues of R.
There are many use cases for graph databases and analytics
Business users are becoming more comfortable with graph analytics.
New approaches to anomaly detection
A practical example of how anomaly detection makes complex data problems easier to solve.
Streamlining feature engineering
Researchers and startups are building tools that enable feature discovery.
A growing number of applications are being built with Spark
Many more companies want to highlight how they're using Apache Spark in production.
It works like the brain. So?
There are many ways a system can be like the brain, but only a fraction of these will prove important.
Welcome to Intelligence Matters
Casting a critical eye on the exciting developments in the world of AI.
Culture’s impact on social media adoption
Commerce and censorship in in cross-cultural social media.
What I use for data visualization
An array of tools for tackling data visualizations.
IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis
It has roots in academic scientific computing, but has features that appeal to many data scientists.
Learning Apache Mesos
Resources for getting started with Apache Mesos.
Apache Mesos: Open source datacenter computing
Mesos offers reliability, efficiency, and faster developer productivity.
An introduction to Hadoop 2.0: Understanding the new data operating system
Apache Hadoop 2.0 represents a generational shift in the architecture of Apache Hadoop.
The Snapchat leak
4.6 million phone numbers, is one of them yours?
Six reasons why I recommend scikit-learn
It's an extensive, well-documented, and accessible, curated library of machine-learning models