State of Data -#54

#analysis – “Data Takes its Rightful Place as a Platform” — Accenture Technology Vision 2011 – ‘400 hypotheses based on input from scientists, architects and engineers’ — mentions “data” 178 times (Full PDF)

 

 

#architecture – Detailed insight into Amazon Web Services infrastructure (pdf) – from James Hamilton, VP/Distinguished Engr., AWS -

#big_data – Data Scientist Summit 2011 videos are now available (requires registration) – notables – ‘Art and Science of Storytelling’; ‘Stories Beyond the Last click’ (last click before purchase gets paid and it’s often wrong)

#conference – Last call! Hadoop Summit 2011, June 29 at Santa Clara Convention Center

#DBMS – Expensive! Did you know that ‘Oracle maintenance costs a 22% of annual license price’ and it ‘goes up to 27% after two years’?

 

#learning – How a polymath helped build ‘n-grams viewer to chart the frequency of phrases across a corpus of 500 billion words’ (‘chide’ is the fastest changing verb ever)

 

#visualization – David McCandless visualizes vanishing fish stocks – shocking depletion in last 100 years.



#etc

• A Data Scientist, somewhat unhappy of ‘sort of “bourgeois” applications of data science’ incubates ‘Data without Borders’

• Red Flag/Blue Flag – Inbox Influence – Add the extension to your Gmail, it tells you about the political inclination of the sender analyzing available data

• Moneyball 2 -Soccer clubs are increasingly hiring Data Analysts to good use

• Power of Analysis – Finding an unreported homicide within 15 clicks

• Chuck Norris vs. Data – If Oscar and Razzies were awarded purely from mining Rotten Tomatoes data….’ Norris tops—or, as it were, bottoms—the list of worst-reviewed actors’
•  $0.36 – Value of a facebook fan interaction.

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