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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, reposted here: While in my opinion this short white paper sized text is not as well written as other entries within the recently

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, reposted here: Similar to another recently published O'Reilly Strata series text on Big Data, "Designing Great Data Products: Inside the Drivetrain Approach, a Four-step

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, reposted here: This succint offering from the recently published O'Reilly Strata series of texts provides a departure

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, reposted here: While at first glance potential readers might see this white paper sized text as overlapping with another recent O'Reilly

New Book Review: "Big Data Now"

New book review for Big Data Now: Current Perpsectives from O'Reilly Radar, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Thorough introduction to the current Big Data landscape. After discussions of data science, associated tooling used in this space, and issues likely to be encountered

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

New Book Review: "What is a P-Value Anyway?"

New book review for What is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics, by Andrew J. Vickers, Addison Wesley, 2009, reposted here: Given the increased focus on analytics in the fields of technology and business, this gem of a book offers grounding to many who have

New Book Review: "HBase: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for HBase: The Definitive Guide, by Lars George, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: This text is amongst the few books I have read in my career which not only serves as a great introduction to a technology, but also provides significant content for both advanced users