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Beautiful Data Gallery
Just a roundup of some recent takes on what people are up to in the area of data visualization. Also, some interesting places to look for more and a few notable blogs where you can keep posted about related topics. Continue…
Muddy Picture in BD/Health Care
soybean gene mapping
Netflix’s Big Adventure
Netflix has been open and unrepentant about publicizing it’s strategy for cultivating value from all the event data at it’s fingertips due to it’s streaming service user base. Their data miners have been taking things far beyond the level of Amazon’s ‘smart’ book recommendations. This new drama, premiering tonight, has been statistically vetted regarding timeslot, programming, script, and even cast with heavy input from their S3/Hadoop cloud (they use AWS for their platform) of user preference and activity data. Continue…
Big Data Comeuppance Sightings
Gartner Hype Cycle graphic cited by Sicular
MapReduce – SQL Coding Comparison
Here’s something neat! Been wondering what the general differences are with MapReduce coding as compared to SQL queries? Rick Osborne, a Web developer and blogger, has a neat graphic depicting just that. The specific databases he looks at are MySQL and MongoDB. But on the relational database front, the SQL looks to be ANSI, and would be rendered identically in Oracle. Continue…
BD and Libertarianism
“Data doesn’t invade people’s lives. Lack of control over how it is used does.”
~ Alistair Croll
I came across this quote, sensible as it is, while the gun control debate is re-energized due to current tragedies in the news, and can’t help but see the parallels with ‘guns don’t kill people’. Continue… ∞
Hearing the Oracle 