State of Technology #80

elsewhere

• 40 Minute Crash Course on Design Thinking
• Startup CEO’s favorite productivity hacks
• Ben Horowitz’s “#hit Sandwich” mode of giving feedback
• Google Data Center’s DiRT (Disaster Recovery Tests) theme – they test to see if Zombie Invasion or aliens could break it too!
• 10 Short Videos on Creativity

Architecture

Scalable JavaScript Design Patterns

Code

Peter Norvig on How to Code a Spelling Corrector

Design

Design Principles behind Firefox OS UX

Essay

Marissa Mayer, her leadership principles, and her “Macs and Madonna Theory”

Mobile

Choice between native app and responsive website is not really a budgetary one

SaaS

Russian Novel Programming

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov is also called Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka. Russian novel programming is the anti-pattern of one thing having many names. 

Service

Really crisp articulation of Lean Startup in about 30 super-light slides

Social

Slashdot turned 15 years – a tour of topics

 

Tool

Business Jargon Directory

 

Hack

Dentist Drill Plays Music

 

etc

• Thinkpad Turned 20
•  App Barks when Users Try to Text behind the wheel

 

parting thought

“Procrastination is finding the most difficult way of doing something, is jumping from one idea to another to another, is checking your emails.” – John Kelly

State of Data #120

Top Read

Big Data Cube – Volume, Velocity, Variety (and associated paper)

 

Analysis

 

Statwing for Small Data Analysis

 

Big Data

 

Foursquare Data reveals where you live accurately 78% of time (paper)

 

Data Science

Detect Ballot Stuffing with Data

 

 

DBMS

 

Fully graphic Dashboard using SQL*Plus?!

 

Idea

 

Data Centers waste 90% or more energy they pull

“McKinsey & Company analyzed energy use by data centers and found that, on average, they were using only 6 percent to 12 percent of the electricity powering their servers to perform computations. The rest was essentially used to keep servers idling and ready in case of a surge in activity that could slow or crash their operations”

 

Learning

Simpson’s Paradox – or, how non-smokers could have higher mortality rates than smokers’?

 

Visualization

 

How to make XKCD style graphs in R?

 

etc

 

• @BigDataBorat

• Data Visualizations from 19^th Century

State of Data #119

Top Read

 

“Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide To Transforming The Business of Government” – Report (pdf) is filled with some key insights –

• While Big Data is transformative, the journey towards becoming Big Data “capable” will be iterative and cyclical, versus revolutionary
• Big Data is often characterized by three factors: volume, velocity, and variety
• Scalable analytics using software frameworks can be combined with storage designs that support massive growth for cost-effectiveness and reliability

Analysis

How ‘correlation does not imply causation’ became an almost irritating meme

 

Big Data

Life of Data at Facebook

Data Science

What do Real-life Hadoop workloads look like?

 

DBMS

Not sure if indexes will be used or how it will be used? You can always write such a small program to check for different execution paths. 

 

Idea

There are two types of data visuals– (a) Story Visualizations and (b) Answer Visualizations.

Learning

SQL Injection in 60 Seconds

 

Visualization

‘Information is Beautiful’ 2012 Award Winning Visualizations

 

etc

• Fermi Problems and Other Prize Winning Estimates

• New music album shows Real-time Music Sharing(Click on a few times till Gold lines appear)