The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Bill Suggests Replacing NTIS with Google Search The article titled There’s a ‘Let Me Google That For You’ Bill on Talking Points Memo relates the substance of a bipartisan bill (sponsored by Tom Coburn and Clair McCaskill). The bills purpose is to save the taxpayer money by resorting to Google and eliminating the National Technical …
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Using Real Data to Mislead Viewers of graphs, beware! Data visualization has been around for a very long time, but it has become ubiquitous since the onset of Big Data. Now, the Heap Data Blog warns us to pay closer attention in, “How to Lie with Data Visualization.” Illustrating his explanation with clear examples, writer …
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The Hadoop Elephant Offers A Helping Trunk It is time for people to understand that relational databases were not made to handle big data. There is just too much data jogging around in servers and mainframes and the terabytes run circles around relational database frameworks. It is sort of like a smart fox toying with …
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MapR Integrates Elasticsearch into Platform Writer Christopher Tozzi opens his Var Guy article, “MapR, Elasticsearch Partner on Open Source Big Data Search,” with a good question: With so many Hadoop distributions out there, what makes one stand out? MapR hopes an integration with Elasticsearch will help them with that. The move brings to MapR, as …
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Google Search, AdSense, and Other Pressures I read “Google Is Enraged By A Fake Conspiracy Theory That It Is Stealing Money From Publishers.” My initial reaction was, “Google seems to have a low threshold for pain.” I continue to hear and read that the shift from desktop Web surfing to whiz bang mobile devices is …
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Cognition Is More Than A Nuance Nuance Communications is synonymous with speech technology. The company keeps making headway in the field and acquiring other companies that have technology to further its mission. Last July, Nuance Communications purchased Cognition Technologies. Cognition was known to be a groundbreaking group that was working on transforming computational linguistics, formal …
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