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New Book Review: "R in Action"

New book review for R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert Kabacoff, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: Quite a few texts on R have entered the marketplace over the last few years, so my decision to go with this text about a year ago was based

New Book Review: "Ethics of Big Data"

New book review for Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation, by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: A very much needed, extremely well written essay on what the authors call the "forcing function" of Big Data – a push to consider serious

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 5

A year has gone by since I last posted about Liquibase, an open source database change management tool that I exclaimed is "one of the best software development tools I have used in recent years" in my first post of the series. All of these posts continue to

Commercialized Open Source (Repost from January 2009)

One nontrivial area of decision making that is of increasing import in recent years involves the choice between open source and commercial products. If you have not yet noticed, a fair number of open source software products have been acquired by commercial firms, and much open source has the backing

New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012, reposted here: This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also wrote "

Counterpoint: Defining Big Data

About a month ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Big Data in Finance Day Chicago event at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. One of my many observations was that it is apparent the industry has not agreed on a definition of "Big Data".The best definition that

Big Data in Finance Day Chicago (September 18, 2012)

Personal notes from Big Data in Finance Day Chicago that I recently attended at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. In speaking with event organizer and Fountainhead owner Andrew "Shep" Sheppard (a self-described quant by day and meetup organizer by night), following the last session, he mentioned that the first

New Book Review: "The Evolution of Data Products"

New book review for The Evolution of Data Products: The Data that Drives Products is Shifting from Overt to Covert, by Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: While in my opinion this short white paper sized text is not as well written as other entries within the recently

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