Video: Building Big Data Pipelines with OSS
In this video from the SpringOne 2012 event, Costin Leau presents: Building Big Data Pipelines with OSS. Hadoop is not an island. To deliver a complete Big Data solution, a data pipeline needs to be...
View ArticleGreen Graph 500 Launches to Boost Energy Efficient Big Data Computing
In this special guest feature, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich writes that the new Green Graph500 aims to boost energy-efficient Big Data Computing. “Big Data” can be analyzed in various ways. The most...
View ArticleRadio Free HPC Fireside Chat – HPC Embraces Big Data
In this slidecast, the Radio Free HPC team interviews Fritz Ferstl, CTO of Univa. Topics include Big Data, HPC, and the continuing convergence of both. While what we think of as traditional HPC may...
View ArticleSlidecast: A Practical Introduction to Hadoop
In this slidecast, Alex Gorbachev from Pythian presents a Practical Introduction to Hadoop. This is a great primer for viewers who want to get the big picture on how Hadoop works with Big Data and how...
View ArticleBig Data Visualization of the Week: NFL Passing
I became fascinated with the big data of sports after reading Nate Silver’s Signal and the Noise bestseller. So I’m excited to report this week’s top visualization comes from a vast data store of the...
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Building Library Recommendations with Big Data Graph Analysis
University Libraries are looking to improve their recommendation systems based on the very same graph search technologies employed by companies like Amazon.
View ArticleBig Data Visualization of the Week: the Prudential Histogram
For this week’s installment of cool visualizations, I offer something I saw on TV one day and it captured my interest in how it engaged the lay public with a simple statistical model – a frequency...
View ArticleBig Data Visualization of the Week: 40 Maps of the World
This week’s installment of big data visualizations is a bonus for those who enjoy stories offered up by data-driven maps. 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World includes some rather...
View ArticleBig Data Virtualization of the Week: Multi-Touch Executive Dashboard
U.S. aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin has partnered with Vizrt, a Norwegian developer of real-time 3D graphics and asset management tools for the broadcast industry, to create a big...
View ArticleBig Data Visualization of the Week: Paperscape
This week’s visualization holds a special place in my heart because its data source is the arXiv pre-print server that I used so extensively in my previous life in astrophysics. arXiv is an open...
View ArticleBig Data Visualization of the Week: BKLYNR All the Stops
The controversial “stop, question and frisk” practices used by the New York City Police Department have been the subject of numerous statistics. A new interactive visualization of all the data related...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: A Mitochondrial Manhattan Plot
This cool visualization from the biological sciences comes courtesy of the Getting Genetics Done blog, written by Stephen Turner an assistant professor of public health sciences and director of the...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Startup Universe
The standout visualization for this week is the The Startup Universe, an interactive visualization from visual content marketplace Visual.ly. With this intuitive tool, you can select a sectors from...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Redditviz
Michigan State University Assistant Professor Zachary P. Neal and computer science Ph.D. student Randy Olson created an interactive online visualization tool, called Redditviz, to provide a lens with...
View ArticleMLDemos – A Visualization Tool for Machine Learning
MLDemos is a dandy open-source visualization tool for machine learning algorithms created to help studying and understanding how various algorithms function and how their parameters affect and modify...
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Big Data Meets Thanksgiving
Wondering what to cook for Thanksgiving? This is a question asked all across the United States this time of year, but the answer often depends on where you live. Big data analysts at AllRecipes.com and...
View ArticleVisualizing Salesforce Reports with DataHero
One of the largest and fastest growing repositories of corporate data sits behind the Salesforce CRM platform. So it made a lot of sense to see the announcement of the new Salesforce reporting API at...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: CrimeMap
The big data visualization of the week comes to us from Jo-fai Chow, a research engineer and data geek from the UK. He uses the ShinyApps alpha release version to produce this delightful web app.
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Demo: map-D Visualizes Big Data Fast with GPUs
In this video from SC13, Thomas Graham and Todd Mostak from map-D demonstrate their super-fast GPU database technology. "We build unique databases that process huge datasets in milliseconds, performing...
View ArticleVisualization of the Week: Philanthropy Data
The Foundation Center, a global philanthropy think tank, launched its Foundation Stats data visualization and exploration tool this week, which allows users to generate charts and reports from its...
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