Jan 13

O’Reilly Radar’s visualization of the week is one by Tony Hirst showing all of your Facebook friends’ likes. The best part is he tells you exactly how to do it using Gephi and Google Refine.

visualization of facebook friends likes

Jan 11

DataScienceCentral lists off the following 5 companies as big data startups to watch…

  1. Platfora
  2. DataStax
  3. Visual.ly
  4. Domo
  5. Metamarkets
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Jan 10

If you’ve ever wondered which neighborhood has more men or women on a given night or where all the people from different parts of town are going, Uber might have it figured out. They’ve used data from their cab service to map people flows in San Francisco.


uber san francisco visualization

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Jan 07

Check out this Boing Boing post to see how a social graph analysis from OrgNet shows that slumlords work together to avoid maintenance on the buildings they buy and sell.

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Dec 31

KDnuggets calls out these 5 as startups to watch this year:

  1. Cloudera
  2. MapR
  3. 10Gen
  4. Hortonworks
  5. Splunk
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Dec 24

If you’re in to machine learning and data mining, then Waffles might be just what you need. Waffles is a collection of command line tools for machine learning and data mining.

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Nov 28

Elegant Coding recommends 11 equations any computer science geek should know. How many of them do you know?

Nov 18

Cloudera has set up a page that links to lots of presentations from Hadoop World.

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Nov 18

JP Morgan Chase and others reiterated “We’re hiring” at the recent Hadoop World Conference. This Information Week article recaps just how hot a commodity a Hadoop engineer is.

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Nov 17

Roger Craig holds the Jeopardy record for single game money winnings. How did he do it? Well part of his success comes from an app he built to help him train.


Roger Craig – Knowledge Tracking from Steven Dean on Vimeo.


And here’s a TheNextWeb article with more info.

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