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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

New Book Review: "Data for the Public Good"

New book review for Data for the Public Good: How Data Can Help Citizens and Government, by Alex Howard, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Similar to another recently published O'Reilly Strata series text on Big Data, "Designing Great Data Products: Inside the Drivetrain Approach, a Four-step

Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present

New Book Review: "Portlets in Action"

New book review for Portlets in Action, by Ashish Sarin, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: In just having recently completed a development project creating portlets for the first time with a Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) compliant portal server, I hope I can provide some insight into the

HAPI Announcement: Version 2.0 Released

Earlier this week, version 2.0 of my favorite open source health care software framework was released, and I received the following email for the announcement: Hi Everyone, Today marks a big milestone for HAPI, with the release of version 2.0 of both the HAPI Java API and the

New Book Review: "Designing Great Data Products"

New book review for Designing Great Data Products: Inside the Drivetrain Approach, a Four-step Process for Building Data Products, by Jeremy Howard, Margit Zwemer, and Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: This succint offering from the recently published O'Reilly Strata series of texts provides a departure

New Book Review: "Planning for Big Data"

New book review for Planning for Big Data: A CIO's Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: While at first glance potential readers might see this white paper sized text as overlapping with another recent O'Reilly

New Book Review: "Big Data Now"

New book review for Big Data Now: Current Perpsectives from O'Reilly Radar, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Thorough introduction to the current Big Data landscape. After discussions of data science, associated tooling used in this space, and issues likely to be encountered

Chicago Big Data: Analyzing Rat Brain Neuronal Signals with Hadoop and Hive (June 26, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at Orbitz, led by Brad Rubin, Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas. * work discussed during this talk started at the University of St. Thomas Graduate Programs in Software * the Center of Excellence for Big Data was launched

Personal Reading List: 3Q2012

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2012. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Big Data Now: Current Perpsectives from O'Reilly Radar, O'Reilly Radar Team, O'Reilly, 2012. Data for the Public Good: How Data Can Help

Jump Start Your App: Sometimes Creativity Comes from Chaos

The article entitled "Appsurd: In Silicon Valley, It's Hard to Make a Joke" published in the Wall Street Journal this past week (June 5, 2012) immediately reminded me of the book "Jump Start Your Brain", by Doug Hall, that I read after receiving it