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New Book Review: "Scenarios"

New book review for Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation (Second Edition), by Kees van der Heijden, Wiley, 2005: This effort seemed to be among the most respected texts amongst the short list of scenario planning efforts in the current marketplace, but the opinions of other readers with regard to

New Book Review: "The Evolution of Data Products"

New book review for The Evolution of Data Products: The Data that Drives Products is Shifting from Overt to Covert, by Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2011: Copy provided by O'Reilly. While in my opinion this short white paper sized text is not as well written as other

New Book Review: "Data for the Public Good"

New book review for Data for the Public Good: How Data Can Help Citizens and Government, by Alex Howard, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Similar to another recently published O'Reilly Strata series text on Big Data, "Designing Great Data Products: Inside the

Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present

New Book Review: "Portlets in Action"

New book review for Portlets in Action, by Ashish Sarin, Manning Publications, 2011: In just having recently completed a development project creating portlets for the first time with a Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) compliant portal server, I hope I can provide some insight into the effectiveness of

New Book Review: "Designing Great Data Products"

New book review for Designing Great Data Products: Inside the Drivetrain Approach, a Four-step Process for Building Data Products, by Jeremy Howard, Margit Zwemer, and Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This succint offering from the recently published O'Reilly Strata series of

New Book Review: "Planning for Big Data"

New book review for Planning for Big Data: A CIO's Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by O'Reilly. While at first glance potential readers might see this white paper sized text as overlapping with another

New Book Review: "Big Data Now"

New book review for Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Thorough introduction to the current Big Data landscape. After discussions of data science, associated tooling used in this space, and issues

Chicago Big Data: Analyzing Rat Brain Neuronal Signals with Hadoop and Hive (June 26, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at Orbitz, led by Brad Rubin, Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas. * work discussed during this talk started at the University of St. Thomas Graduate Programs in Software * the Center of Excellence for Big Data was launched

Jump Start Your App: Sometimes Creativity Comes from Chaos

The article entitled "Appsurd: In Silicon Valley, It's Hard to Make a Joke" published in the Wall Street Journal this past week (June 5, 2012) immediately reminded me of the book "Jump Start Your Brain", by Doug Hall, that I read after receiving it