Science of Big Data 2012 – Mark J. Headd – Big Data in the Big City
Mark Headd is the Chief Data Officer of the City of Philadelphia. The first official head of data in the city, he’s been working with other cities and with the city’s data science community to enable...
View ArticleScience of Big Data 2012 – Andrew Oswald / Josh Angotti – Hadoop at Comcast –...
Chariot Solutions has been working with Comcast to enable better understanding of selections their cable subscribers make in their onscreen menus. Andrew Oswald, a Hadoop and data analysis expert at...
View ArticleScience of Big Data 2012 – Tom Santero – Adventures with Eventual Consistency
Tom Santero is a Technical Evangelist for Basho, the creators of Riak, a NoSQL database engine. His talk focuses on the concerns involved in keeping a large dataset up to date, mixing concurrency with...
View ArticleScience of Big Data 2012 – Stuart Sierra – Breaking Down Big Data with Datomic
Every database technology is a product of its time, optimized for a particular hardware profile. Today, “Big Data” is often synonymous with the Map/Reduce architecture and Hadoop but, as technology...
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