Roger Magoulas
Roger Magoulas is the director of market research at O'Reilly Media. Magoulas runs a team that is building an open source analysis infrastucture and provides analysis services, including technology trend analysis, to business decision-makers at O'Reilly and beyond. In previous incarnations, Magoulas designed and implemented data warehouse projects for organizations ranging from the San Francisco Opera to the Alberta Motor Club.
Open source won
What does winning look like? No enemy has been vanquished, but open source is now mainstream and a new norm.
7 emergent themes from Webstock reveal a framework
Agility, simplicity, and curiosity will define the next generation of apps and devices.
The speakers at the recent Webstock conference in New Zealand gravitated toward many of the same themes. Taken together, these themes create a framework for building the next generation of services, applications and devices.
Need faster machine learning? Take a set-oriented approach
How a days-long data process was completed in minutes.
We recently faced the type of big data challenge we expect to become increasingly common: scaling up the performance of a machine learning classifier for a large set of unstructured data. In this post, we explain how a set-oriented approach led to huge performance gains.
Ebooks and the threat from "internal constituencies"
Lessons from adjacent media companies can inform publishers' ebook strategies.
Will internal constituencies bias how publishers value print book and ebook business models? Roger Magoulas examines that question and looks at the complementary relationship between print and electronic forms.
