"strataweek" entries
Strata Week: Hadoop competition heats up
Vendors jockey for Hadoop positioning, Facebook visualizes PHP modules, Shaq's stats
Competition among Hadoop vendors heats up, Facebook visualizes its PHP code modules, and a Many Eyes tool visualizes the stats from Shaquille O'Neal's basketball career.
Strata Week: The mortality rate of URLs
Parsing link rot, visualizing Wikipedia edits, and deconstructing autocorrect
In the latest Strata Week: How quickly do URLs die? Where in the world are Wikipedia editors? How does the iPhone autocorrect work (or not)?
Strata Week: A call for open science data
Science needs to open up, the murky ownership of UK train data, hacking a Texas town.
In the latest Strata Week: London's Royal Society wants scientists need to improve their data sharing habits, UK train data is limited by murky ownership, a man is on a mission to hack a Texas town, and a few suggestions for your summer reading list.
Strata Week: Data tools, data weapons, data stories
Another AVOS acquisition, the political power of data, and data's storytelling prowess.
In the latest Strata Week: An AVOS acquisition hints at what's to come, a ranking tool reveals data's intimidation factor, and a look at how scientific papers might evolve.
Strata Week: Will data make stock exchanges unnecessary?
Data could disrupt the stock world, how stolen data is sold, and geography data's predictive power
Will big data kill the stock exchange? That question was recently explored by Andy Kessler. Plus: How recent security breaches could shape the black market and a look at how "island biogeography" predicted Osama Bin Laden's location.
Strata Week: Overcharging algorithms
Algorithms go awry on Amazon, the future of Hadoop at Yahoo, and the Supreme Court mulls data mining
In this Strata Week: Algorithm pricing on Amazon pushes the price of a biology book to astronomical levels, Yahoo weighs the future of Hadoop, and the Supreme Court hears arguments about a Vermont law restricting the data mining of prescription records.
Data News: Week in Review
Personal genomics, education data, and a new version of Hadoop
In the latest Data News: 23andMe offers discounted personal genetics testing, DonorsChoose.org opens its dataset for a hacking education contest, and Cloudera releases Version 3.0 of its Hadoop distribution.
Strata Week: Data centers
Solving the problem of where to store huge amounts of data
This week, we look at the problem of too much government data, and companies beginning to build air-economized data centers (some in barns!). Plus: a few suggestions for pre-Strata reading on big data.
Strata Week: Shop 'til you drop
Stack Exchange goes in-house, Netflix pays for platforms, survey data gets visualized, and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace
In this edition of Strata Week: Stack Exchange takes their hardware and software in-house; Neflix explains their adoption of AWS and open source; the New York Times maps out survey and census data; and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace.
Strata Week: Shop ’til you drop
Stack Exchange goes in-house, Netflix pays for platforms, survey data gets visualized, and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace
In this edition of Strata Week: Stack Exchange takes their hardware and software in-house; Neflix explains their adoption of AWS and open source; the New York Times maps out survey and census data; and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace.