State of Data Last Week - #36

#Inside Intuit – Lots of Data Job openings in Intuit – please refer your Data Contacts to work in one of the “best places to work” in U.S..

Req #	Title
70676	Sr. Web Developer
70952	Staff Software Engineer Data
71010	Senior Software Engineer Data Warehousing
71012	Data Architect
71058	Senior Scientist: Analytics
71059	Senior Scientist: Econometrics
71061	Senior Scientist: Data Mining
71115	Data Warehouse Engineer
71150	Data Scientist

#analysis – Watson, 80 teraflops machine, wins Jeopardy against best of Humans, but also asserted Toronto is a U.S. city. Here’s a fascinating white paper from IBM Lab / Stanford highlighting the journey (PDF) with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.

#architecture – A Data Management Architectural Pattern behind interactive web applications using Hadoop with Membase, serving ‘sub-millisecond latency’.

 

290,000 people played CityVille in its first 24 hours!

#big_data – Scale-up vs. Scale Out – What happens when you pitch Watson (a very large box) against Google (Cloud Grid) for Jeopardy?

#DBMS – Some old-school, reliable fun to calculate overlapping hours for Labor Transactions – from defining the problem, design tables to write elegant SQLs.

#learning – ‘What I do with data at 37Signals’ – answering ‘why people cancel, how they interact with signup pages etc’ and what tools get used (including HP-12C)

#visualization – Trulia created an interactive map of ‘Rent vs. Buy’ in America’s 50 largest cities with associated Job Growth, Foreclosure and Employment data.

#etc

 

• Is there a worse way to add a column to a report?

• Urban SQL Injection

• 1 working hour every day? Facebook now accounts for 12.3% of time spent online in the U.S., compared to 7.2% a year ago. Comscore’s just released “2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review” has some more interesting trends.

• Valentine’s day ‘online shoppers plan to spend $170 on gift, versus just $67 for in store shoppers’.

 

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