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New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012: Copy provided by Amazon. This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also

Counterpoint: Defining Big Data

About a month ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Big Data in Finance Day Chicago event at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. One of my many observations was that it is apparent the industry has not agreed on a definition of "Big Data".The best definition that

Big Data in Finance Day Chicago (September 18, 2012)

Personal notes from Big Data in Finance Day Chicago that I recently attended at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. In speaking with event organizer and Fountainhead owner Andrew "Shep" Sheppard (a self-described quant by day and meetup organizer by night), following the last session, he mentioned that the first

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: "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