Data Science Stack Exchange
On 9 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
The Data Science Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for data science professionals.
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SSD to the rescue of Peak Hard Drive?
On 7 Jun, 2014 By michaelmalak 0 Comments
A couple of months ago, I blogged about Peak Hard Drive, that hard drive capacities were leveling off and how this would impact the footprints of data centers in the era of Big Data. Since then, there have been two major announcements about SSDs that indicate they may come to the rescue:
Descriptive Predictive Prescriptive Analytics
On 4 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
The goal of Data Analytics (big and small) is to get actionable insights resulting in smarter decisions and better business outcomes. How you architect business technologies and design data analytics processes to get valuable, actionable insights varies.
Data Scientists by Education 2014
On 3 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
According to recent survey by Burtch Works.
Minor earthquake this past week: Classic Shark gone
On 31 May, 2014 By michaelmalak 0 Comments
Using SQL on Hadoop data has been deemed a holy grail and Apache Spark has gained the mainstream press coverage it has long deserved in part due to its 1.0 release.
NoSQL & NewSQL Database Adoption 2014
On 29 May, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
Your Data Science Portfolio: Be An Open Data Curator
On 29 May, 2014 By McPedr0 0 Comments
In the drive towards the semantic web, mailing lists are ripe, low hanging fruit. They are full of wisdom totally inaccessible to the casual user. To unlock this wealth of knowledge for our apps, we need it in a format like the Stack Exchange data dump.
Bad Data Science and Woody Allen
On 23 May, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." - Oscar Wilde
2014 Salaries for Data Professionals - Data Scientists Top Pay Scale
On 23 May, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
Data scientists are the lion kings of data pros.
Salaries for business intelligence and data warehousing pros are stagnating.
According to recently released reports by Burtch Works, data science professionals are at the top of the pay scale.
Mahout 1.0 not just built on Spark, it subsumes Spark
On 21 May, 2014 By michaelmalak 0 Comments
This evening, Ted Dunning from MapR and major contributor to Apache Mahout, showed the future of Mahout.