State of Data #98

#1Read_this_Week – How Dan Hon battled Type-2 Diabetes with data #QuantifiedSelf

#analysis – Why Real-time Analytics (pdf; from InfoChimps)

#architecture – From Facebook Engineering – Data Diving with Scuba                                                                    

#big_data – Data Journalism Handbook released; FREE Online Version.

#Data_Science – The math behind Ticket Bargains

#DBMS – Amazon now supports SQL Server in RDS 

#idea – How Big Data transformed the Dairy Industry

#learning – Why we should just embrace UTF-8 everywhere (or, the case against all other Unicode encodings)

#visualization – How many photos have ever been taken

 

#etc

• Employee with last name ‘Null’ is killing the entire app
• Data at GitHub
• Kindle Most highlighted Passage of All time – “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them”
• “Big Data’s Big Problem: Little Talent”