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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

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: Given the increased focus on analytics in the fields of technology and business, this gem of a book offers grounding to many who have lost sight

New Book Review: "HBase: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for HBase: The Definitive Guide, by Lars George, O'Reilly, 2011: 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 and those

BigDataCamp Chicago (April 21, 2012)

Personal notes from BigDataCamp Chicago attended yesterday at Morningstar. The first BigDataCamp Chicago, for which I registrered but could not attend, was held on November 19, 2011. This time around, the title for this event was amended to include "Open Data", to emphasize working with data publicly made

New Book Review: "The Wrong Answer Faster"

New book review for The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine that Trades Trillions, by Michael Goodkin, Wiley, 2012: Copy provided by Amazon. A coming of age story of a man and an industry. As a first generation American, a Chicago-area native, and a software professional,

New Release: IBM DB2 10

While doing some research for a recent client, I came across a press release that announces the planned release of DB2 10 later this month (April 2012). At another previous client a couple years ago, I used DB2 9.5, and have not needed (or necessarily wanted) to look into

New Book Review: "Hadoop in Action"

New book review for Hadoop in Action, by Chuck Lam, Manning Publications, 2010: After checking out reviews of what O'Reilly and Apress had to offer with regard to Hadoop, I ended up purchasing this book based on positive reviews, my past positive experiences with the Manning "In