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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

New Book Review: "What is a P-Value Anyway?"

New book review for What is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics, by Andrew J. Vickers, Addison Wesley, 2009, reposted here: Given the increased focus on analytics in the fields of technology and business, this gem of a book offers grounding to many who have

New Book Review: "HBase: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for HBase: The Definitive Guide, by Lars George, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: This text is amongst the few books I have read in my career which not only serves as a great introduction to a technology, but also provides significant content for both advanced users

BigDataCamp Chicago (April 21, 2012)

Personal notes from BigDataCamp Chicago attended yesterday at Morningstar. The first BigDataCamp Chicago, for which I registrered but could not attend, was held on November 19, 2011. This time around, the title for this event was amended to include "Open Data", to emphasize working with data publicly made

New Book Review: "The Wrong Answer Faster"

New book review for The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine that Trades Trillions, by Michael Goodkin, Wiley, 2012, reposted here: A coming of age story of a man and an industry. As a first generation American, a Chicago-area native, and a software professional, I find

New Release: IBM DB2 10

While doing some research for a recent client, I came across a press release that announces the planned release of DB2 10 later this month (April 2012). At another previous client a couple years ago, I used DB2 9.5, and have not needed (or necessarily wanted) to look into

New Book Review: "Hadoop in Action"

New book review for Hadoop in Action, by Chuck Lam, Manning Publications, 2010, reposted here: After checking out reviews of what O'Reilly and Apress had to offer with regard to Hadoop, I ended up purchasing this book based on positive reviews, my past positive experiences with the Manning

New Book Review: "Managing Time in Relational Databases"

New book review for Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data, by Tom Johnston and Randall Weis, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: When this book was published last year, I must admit that the data architect in me was excited that an advanced database