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    I am excited to find this nice website. I'm an engineer focusing on BigData ( Hadoop/Hive/HBase/Spark/Shark etc) . I found a lot of resource in this website. I'd like to learn more and share with others here.

This could be a good project in connection with our data science apprenticeship. Two websites, GreatSchools.org and Zillow.com provide two great indicators: school scores for more than 100,000 schools…

Note: The domain RonCloud.com seems dead now. Read the comment section below for alternatives.

You have to see it to believe it. Go to roncloud.com and you can enter R commands in the browser-embedded console. Wondering how easy it would be…

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1. 4.4 Million Big Data Jobs in 2015…

My new blog post on what I coined as "sparkgrams".  Included is an implementation in YUI3 for custom website presentations of data, but I wish R and iPython Notebook had similar functionality.

http://technicaltidbit.blogspot.com/2013/06/histogram-thumbnails-inside-yui3-data.html

Or something else. I could not resist to post this chart:

Source: http://slackprop.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/geeknerd-plot-01.png…

How can organizations use data visualization, visual analytics, and visual data discovery to improve decision-making, collaboration, and operational execution? We present three key insights from the latest TDWI research.

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Imagine being able to do anything your mind can imagine, well now it can..

The 6th Normal Form is not a TERM.. it is a GOAL.. the "holy Grail" if you will of data management and more importantly "Information" management.. Imagine being able to Store IDEAS as opposed to disconnected bits of data..



A brief "INCORRECT" comment on WIKI.. "A relvar R [table] is in sixth normal form (abbreviated…

Interesting topic posted by InfiniteLoop on PerlMonks, back in 2008!

Next-best offer refers to the use of predictive analytics solutions to identify the products or services your customers are most likely to be interested in for their next purchase.

Facing this topic I have made a personal research, and realize a synthesis, which has helped me to clarify some ideas. The attached presentation does not intend to be exhaustive on the subject, but could perhaps bring you some useful insights:…

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." – Benjamin Franklin…

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I have two databases on Microsoft SQL Server (daily business activities performed) and also on peachtree and on orange human resources software. I want to build a data warehouse with this databases available. My questions are:

i. Where can I integrate all these databases together

ii. After I integrate, how can I mine this data?

iii. What is the best software to use and mine this data?

iv. Can combining all these databases produce insight…

There's a lot of talk these days about how governments use all the data they can put their hands on, to monitor every individual in the world. Capabilities offered by big data storage and analytic processing are immense, when in the hands of professional, capable data scientists.  Last week the National Security Agency was under the spotlight, a month ago it was the IRS (Income Revenue Service) for a biased auditing …

Nowadays we hear a lot about big data, cloud, or the big data analytics on cloud. One of the underlying needs here is the data storage. It is stored as 0’s and 1’s in some datacenters. It isn’t cheap to maintain all of this data. Looking at the heat generated by these datacenters, it isn’t even environment friendly.

Can this data be really in the clouds? (The real clouds formed in the sky) :)

In India we have heard about Rishi’s who used to sit under a tree and meditate for…

Guest post by Emily Bailey, Nathan Srinivas, and Barry Fischer. First published June 6, 2013, in Opower.

Over the past couple of years,…

There are two major perspectives of Data Science we can look at:

- Consumer/User Perspective

- Data Scientist’s Perspective

This article explores these two areas to ponder upon in little more depth.

- Consumer/User Perspective (User will not like “noise”)

A single user/consumer might need some analysis to either start some study or make some decisions. This single user might be a CIO/CTO or perhaps we can also say that this single user is a group of decision…