Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

Amazon offers relational database in the cloud

28th October 2009 by No Comments

Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Using Amazon’s Cloud to analyze Wikipedia traffic

17th June 2009 by No Comments

Here’s a great article from DataWrangling about using Amazon’s Cloud services to analyze traffic data from Wikipedia. The 320 GB data set is available to the public here.

The Colbert Bump proven

31st May 2009 by No Comments

Anyone who has every watched Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report is surely familiar with the increased awareness his guests get, referred to as the Colbert Bump. The Director of Advanced Analytics at Juice recently took on the task of trying to prove this lift as a real phenomenon. The analysis shows [...]

Amazon now offers Elastic MapReduce

2nd April 2009 by No Comments

Amazon has announced the public beta of their hosted Hadoop framework. Using Elastic MapReduce, you can quickly launch as much processing power as needed for your analytics task. Data can be stored on the S3 platform. Sign in to the AWS Management Console to kick things off.

Tips from Amazon to keep your db simple and fast

25th March 2009 by No Comments

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, provides these tips to keep your database simple and running fast on his blog at All Things Distributed.

Amazon EC2 for poets

20th March 2009 by No Comments

I was starting to experiment with Amazon’s EC2 a couple nights ago and it isn’t terribly difficult but it is tricky trying to figure out what steps to take in what order. If you’re looking for a beginners’ guide to cloud computing with Amazon EC2, here it is – EC2 for Poets. This [...]

Amazon Makes New Data Sets Publically Available via AWS

5th March 2009 by No Comments

Check out the new data sets available via Amazon Web Services

US Beureau of Transportation Statistics
DBpedia Knowledge Base
Freebase Data Dump
Wikipedia Extraction
GENBank