State of Data #86
February 17, 2012 2 Comments
#architecture – Excel Cloud Data Analytics – enjoy the bandwidth of cloud, at the privacy of your spreadsheet
#big_data – Generating Twitter WordClouds in R
#Data_Science – How many state license plates do you expect to see in a road trip? Depends on (a) how many miles you drive, and (b) number of licensed drivers per state
#DBMS – SQL Injection Redux from Tom Kyte
#idea – ***** Markov text generator of PubMed papers (using Python)
#learning – csvKit – very useful suite of tools to munge and process CSV files (like, auto-import it to any database; join-clean-grep files etc)
#visualization – Visualizing Decision-tree for Hosting

#etc
- ‘Beautiful Math behind the Ugliest Music’ – ‘ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of any pattern, using a mathematical concept known as the Golomb ruler’
- Best & Worst stocks of the Past Decade
- When Larry Page messed up statistics
- 2427 = 21 + 42 + 23 + 74
I just discovered your blog, and I’m enjoying it a lot, you’re finding some great links for the State of Data posts. Keep up the good work!
Pete,
Wow! You’re one of my ‘data’ heroes. Your comment made my day.
-Nilendu