The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Getting dirty with open source databases “We have been forced to look elsewhere because it’s not economical. If I want to do some serious number-crunching, I’m not going to spend £60,000 for a box when I can get something like MySQL with zero licensing costs and which pretty much does the same thing. It might …
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The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here’s Why They’d #Fail. Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept, 20 January 2016
Why open source is the ‘new normal’ for big data Openness is driving the Hadoop ecosystem, Talend’s CEO says It’s no secret that Hadoop and Apache Spark are the hottest technologies in big data, but what’s less often remarked upon is that they’re both open-source.
How Big Data Is Missing the Mark At this point in the Big Data sensation, many businesses are swimming in data without the means to leverage it effectively. TechWeek Europe cites a recent survey from storage provider Pure Storage in its write-up, “Big Data ‘Fails Businesses’ Due to Access, Skills Shortage.” Interestingly, most of the …
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Big Data Myths Debunked An abundance of data is not particularly valuable without the ability to draw conclusions from it. Forbes recognizes the value of data analysis in, “Text Analytics Gurus Debunk Four Big Data Myths.” Contributor Barbara Thau observes:
Data and Information: Three Cs for an Average Grade I read “Why Companies Are Not Engaging with Their Data.” The write up boils down the “challenge” to three Cs; that is, a mnemonic which makes it easy to pinpoint Big Data clumsiness. The three Cs are:Callowness,Cost,Complexity.
Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance An open-source exploration of the city’s neighborhoods, nightlife, airport traffic, and more, through the lens of publicly available taxi and Uber data These maps show every taxi pickup and drop off, respectively, in New York City from 2009–2015.
