Analytics Team

Slashdot says the next performance goal for the supercomputing world is exascale.

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.

CIO Magazine highlights the major moments in the 60 year history of modern cryptography

Here’s a blog post about getting non-stats people interested and informed about the role that statistics play.

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 [...]

In an effort to increase user engagement, satisfaction, and profitability, many websites are offering their users various types of recommendations. Many people are familiar with Amazon.com’s people who bought also bought or people who browsed also browsed. But how do they do that?
Darren Vengroff, chief scientist from RichRelevance, explains some of the components [...]

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 [...]

Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.
Introduction to Pig
Pig Tutorial

GigaOM posted an article claiming that we are in the midst of a data mining renaissance. Sounds good to me.