Category: Technology
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Big Data and the Bright Future of Applied Statistics
I couldn’t help but think of these two together, because I happened to read them within hours. The bright future of applied statistics: I think that the data revolution is just getting started. Datasets are currently being, or have already been, collected that contain, hidden in their complexity, important truths waiting to be discovered. These discoveries will…
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People are lazy, and Finding Your Flow and Motivation
People are lazy. Here’s how I get shit done.: I am lazy. If there is a shortcut I will take it. I love feeling accomplished, but I don’t always love the hard work it takes to get there. Finding Your Flow and Motivation: In the past the hurricane days were exception. And when those days…
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EMC and the 7 Dwarves
Good wrap up of the big iron storage industry. EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1 and EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2: EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. […] EMC’s position is analogous to IBM’s in the 70s:…
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed
Eric Brewer about CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed: The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties. However, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize consistency and availability, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three. In the decade since its introduction, designers and…
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Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri
Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri: Few people in Silicon Valley wear as many hats as Aneel Bhusri. Currently known primarily for his role as co-CEO of Workday, the cloud-based human resources software company that floated in an IPO last year, he also maintains an active role as a partner at…
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A Tour through the Visualization Zoo
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo: The goal of visualization is to aid our understanding of data by leveraging the human visual system’s highly tuned ability to see patterns, spot trends, and identify outliers. This article provides a brief tour through the “visualization zoo,” showcasing techniques for visualizing and interacting with diverse data sets. In…
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Performance vs. Scalability
Scalable System Design: Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously. This one covers general considerations. The mathematical approach is explained in Scalability at the Cost of Availability: Do you associate…
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How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
How to hire data scientists and get hired as one: Data scientist might be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s hardly an easy gig to land. Here is some advice from practitioners at Netflix, Orbitz and Hortonworks on how get hired and even do the hiring. I didn’t find more from Netflix…
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IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data
IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data: IBM said Thursday it would spend $1 billion to support flash storage in more of its products and open 12 facilities worldwide to show enterprises what a difference flash can make. It also unveiled its new FlashSystems line of flash-storage…
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