Greenplum Acquires MoreVRP
We are excited to announce that EMC has acquired More IT Resources Ltd., a privately held company based in Israel, and will integrate it immediately into Greenplum. More’s flagship product, MoreVRP,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dating by Data and Design
Photo by Allen Skyy on Flickr. (CC BY-ND 2.0)Online dating has come a long way from its somewhat dubious beginnings — it’s likely a friend, relative, or even yourself has found a partner through a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why The Time is Right for MapReduce Design Patterns
One of the common questions I get from people about my new book MapReduce Design Patterns is “why did you write it?” In this post, I’ll explain the reasons, as well as what MapReduce design patterns...
View ArticleInformation Regarding the Pivotal Initiative
On December 4, 2012, EMC and VMware shared information on the newly formed Pivotal Initiative. Q: What is the Pivotal Initiative? VMware and EMC are committing key existing technology, people and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greenplum Plugs In To Gnip
With data from social media platforms accounting for an ever-increasing amount of the Big Data deluge, collecting that data becomes an ever-moving target. As social networks proliferate, so do the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Study Finds Surprising Links Between Social Media and Music Sales
Image via the NextBigSound blog. With the music industry still scrambling to make money in the age of digital distribution, companies and musicians are increasingly turning to data to crack the code....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data Science vs. Data Analytics
Image by Dmitry Baranovskiy via Flickr. (CC BY 2.0) With Big Data becoming one of the year’s top buzzwords, terms describing the practitioners working with said data can become confused. As Data...
View ArticleClik here to view.
D.J. Patil: Data Science is Storytelling
There’s a significant gulf between collecting Big Data and being able to confidently act upon it. In that gulf you’ll find data scientists developing and refining models, identifying questions, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the “Team of Rivals” Building Greenplum HD
Enterprise-Ready Apache Hadoop When our company was acquired by EMC in July of 2010, we could have easily been scooped up and monetized as a pretty nice data warehousing business for our parent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gartner Publishes North Pole Big Data Assessment
Delivering toys to millions of children around the world in one night: suffice to say, Santa and his helpers at the North Pole may have been the first enterprise to contend with Big Data’s challenges....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Food Genius Serves Appetizing Analytics to Restaurant Owners
Running a restaurant can be a risky enterprise, prone to fickle culinary trends and stock overages. Moreover, up to 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste, according to a report released last August...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DataKind’s Jake Porway on Data-Driven Solutions to Pressing Social Issues
Image from UCLA Magazine. 2012 was an eventful year for data scientist Jake Porway and DataKind, the organization he cofounded that connects nonprofits with volunteer data practitioners to addressing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hadoop Vaidya: Performance advisor for Hadoop Map/Reduce Jobs
Vaidya: (In “Sanskrit” language) An expert (versed in his own profession, esp. in medical science), skilled in the art of healing. It’s been few years since I open sourced the Hadoop Vaidya, as a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Do You Interview a Data Scientist?
Image by Dmitry Baranovskiyvia Flickr. (CC BY 2.0) Since data science is a relatively nascent field, enterprises often have a hard time finding the best and the brightest. Compounding the confusion is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Do TV Viewers Tweet? Depends.
Twitter is a veritable gold mine of real-time social data for advertisers, brands, and entertainment studios. The much-vaunted phenomena of the second screen — viewers browsing and posting to social...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Usage and Quirks of fs.default.name in Hadoop FileSystem
Image via Future of CIO. A few weeks ago, while working on a unified storage abstraction for Hadoop, I implemented the Hadoop FileSystem interface at work. To make it easier to test, I wanted to make...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ethics and the Data-Driven Enterprise
“Pattern Recognition I” by Mario Klingemann via Flickr. Despite the prodigious business value, civic innovation, and predictive insight yielded from the cascading streams of Big Data, there are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visualizing the Economic Health of the Nation, One State at a Time
Determining the state of the United States economy by a single metric may provide grist for the pundits, but little in the way of real insight. Many factors contribute to the overall health of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ProPublica’s Force of Algorithmic Cub Reporters
The days of the cub reporter attending high school football games or city counsel meetings are becoming a thing of the past. With so much data available, and machines becoming increasingly effective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing Bill Jacobs
Hello to my high-tech contacts, Twitter followers, and colleagues in the Big Data world. For 18 months, I’ve avoided the blogosphere. But alas, one of the New Year’s resolutions I intend to keep will...
View Article
