Tweets loud and quiet
Twitter’s long, long, long tail suggests the service is less democratic than it seems.
Data
Our take on the ideas, information, and tools that make data work.
How to analyze 100 million images for $624
There's a lot of new ground to be explored in large-scale image processing.
Data scientists and data engineers like Python and Scala
Python and Scala are popular among members of several well-attended SF Bay Area Meetups
Data wrangling gets a fresh look
We are in the early days of productivity technology in data science
How companies are using Spark
The inaugural Spark Summit will feature a wide variety of real-world applications
Julia’s Role in Data Science
Myths and Realities
Business Models for the Data Economy
You're sitting on a pile of interesting data. How do you transform that into money?
Stream processing and mining just got more interesting
A general purpose stream processing framework from the team behind Kafka and new techniques for computing approximate quantiles.
How Twitter monitors millions of time series
A distributed, near real-time system simplifies the collection, storage, and mining of massive amounts of event data
Data analysis: Just one component of the data science workflow
Specialized tools run the risk of being replaced by others that have more coverage.
Data analysis tools target non-experts
Tools simplify the application of advanced analytics and the interpretation of results
Genomics and the role of big data in personalizing the healthcare experience
Increasingly available data spurs organizations to make analysis easier
Interactive big data analysis using approximate answers
As data sizes continue to grow, interactive query systems may start adopting the sampling approach central to BlinkDB.
Data scientists tackle the analytic lifecycle
A new crop of data science tools for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining models
Improving options for unlocking your graph data
Graph data is an area that has attracted many enthusiastic entrepreneurs and developers
11 essential features that visual analysis tools should have
Visual analysis tools are adding advanced analytics for big data
Tachyon: An open source, distributed, fault-tolerant, in-memory file system
Tachyon enables data sharing across frameworks and performs operations at memory speed
The re-emergence of time-series
Researchers begin to scale up pattern recognition, machine-learning, and data management tools.
Large-scale data collection and real-time analytics using Redis
Insights from a Strata Santa Clara 2013 session.
Python data tools just keep getting better
A variety of tools are making data science tasks easy to do in Python
Open data economy: Eight business models for open data and insight from Deloitte UK
Two open data items of note from readers.
Shark: Real-time queries and analytics for big data
Shark is 100X faster than Hive for SQL, and 100X faster than Hadoop for machine-learning
Seven reasons why I like Spark
Spark is becoming a key part of a big data toolkit.
Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product
DJ Patil details a new approach to solving data problems: use a problem's "weight" against itself.