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.
Oct 04
Oracle has just announced their Big Data Appliance in this press release. There’s some NoSQL stuff in there related to Oracle’s ownership of Berkeley DB. There’s some Hadoop stuff in there. And there’s some R stuff too.
Check out the post on the O’Reilly radar blog for more info.
Sep 03
IBM Research has developed a hardware and software solution to join 200,000 hard disks together into a single 120 petabyte storage cluster. Here’s an article from ExtremeTech and here’s one from O’Reilly Radar with more details. As of last year, Facebook had the worlds largest Hadoop cluster at 21 petabytes. This IBM cluster is for a customer, likely a government agency.
Sep 02
O’Reilly Media just announced the release of their ebook, Big Data Now. It’s a collection of all the Big Data related content they’ve published on the Radar blog over the past year.
Go download your copy today.
Aug 29
Hillary Mason, chief scientist at URL shortening service, Bit.ly, will be speaking at the upcoming Strata conference in New York. Here’s a preview from O’Reilly Radar of what she has to say.
Feb 03
Kaggle has hosted several data mining competitions, similar to the Netflix prize, but recently announced a new and big one. It’s called the Heritage Health Prize and the prize has been set at $3M. The focus on the prize is being able to predict when a person needs to go to the hospital before they actually make a visit. Here’s some more info from O’Reilly Radar. And here is Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle announcing the contest at the Strata Conference…
