Microsoft has recently located one of their data centers in a barn. HP has tried putting a data center in a tent.
Nov 20
Benjamin Edelman takes a look at some biases to Google’s own listings within its search results. Slashdot has some more info.
Mar 31
While not the normal analytics post, this one is still focused on data. Techcrunch has an article detailing the expected growth in mobile data volume over the course of the next 5 years. The growth will be based both on increases in number of smartphone users as well as data volumes for each user.
Dec 03
Slashdot says the next performance goal for the supercomputing world is exascale.
Nov 18
While this isn’t the normal sort of thing covered on this site, I thought it was interesting enough to show. Here’s an article that lists the 10 statisticians every psychologist should know. Some of them are definitely relevant to the rest of us.
Sep 22
CIO Magazine highlights the major moments in the 60 year history of modern cryptography
Aug 09
Here’s a blog post about getting non-stats people interested and informed about the role that statistics play.
Jun 01
Sometimes interesting trends are hiding in plain sight as in the case of boys’ names. Here’s an article showing how over the past 100 years the last letter of boy names has been zeroing in on one letter – N. 100 years ago, there were 10 letters that stood out. 50 years ago there were 6. Now – N.
Jun 01
Back in “the old days” people often played chess with opponents who were far away by writing down their move and sending a letter by mail. Gamesbyemail.com has updated the concept for the internet age.
They’ve also developed a robot to generate the 80,000+ dice rolls needed for many of their games. Check out the article about the Dice-O-Matic.
Apr 25
Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.
