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Mobile data volume to increase 40X in 5 years

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:52:27 +0000

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.

100 million core supercomputer by 2018?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:29:09 +0000

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

10 statisticians every psychologist should know

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:38:06 +0000

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.

Cryptography is 60 years old

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:58:49 +0000

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

Statistics for non-statisticians

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:29:19 +0000

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

Trends in boys names over the last 100 years

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:01:06 +0000

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.

Different methods for online recommendation

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:48:11 +0000

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 of a recommendation system in a GigaOM article.

Dice rolling machine

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:37:32 +0000

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.

Cloudera and Yahoo partner for Apache Pig training

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:37:25 +0000

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

The data mining renaissance

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:45:55 +0000

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