Interview: Sastry Malladi, StubHub on Designing Big Data Architecture for the Unknown Future
We discuss the Big Data architecture at StubHub, important factors in architecture design, hybrid approach of using Big Data along with traditional data warehouses, challenges, importance of meta-data and more.
on Jul 28, 2014 in Architecture, Challenges, Design, Hadoop, Interview, Metadata, Personalization, Recommendation, Sastry Malladi, StubHub
Containers: The Enabler of YARN
The evolution of a data-center operating system is discussed along with the underlying challenges and approaches being followed. Containers play a big role in enabling the required abstraction and deliver additional benefits.
on Jul 28, 2014 in Altiscale, Applications, Containers, Docker, Hadoop, MapReduce, Mesos, Virtualization, YARN
Data for Good: data-driven projects for social good
Data for Good is an exciting new non-profit seeking to highlight the various data science projects and resources that can ultimately contribute to the social good.
on Jul 26, 2014 in Data Science, Government, Open Data, Social Good, Social Participation
Spotting Bad Data Visualizations
Good (or bad) Data visualizations can significantly help (or hurt) your case. Learn more about how poorly people can spot bad data visualizations.
on Jul 22, 2014 in Data Visualization, Software Advice
How Xbox, Big Data & Statistical Analysis Can Measure Public Opinion
Could the Xbox gaming platform and Big Data hold the key to generating accurate measures of public opinion, such as election polling? A team of statistical scientists think so.
on Jul 11, 2014 in Big Data, Statistics, Survey, Xbox
When Watson Meets Machine Learning
Our report on a recent Cognitive Systems meetup co-sponsored by IBM Watson and NYU Center for Data Science, IBM Watson Ecosystem, and machine learning applications, from healthcare to cognitive toys. You will want Fang!
on Jul 2, 2014 in App, Cognitive Computing, IBM, Machine Learning, Ran Bi, Watson
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