Teddy in Brussels
February 14, 2011
Teddy in Brussels # Not much time here, except for a brief view of the atomium from our bed&breakfast place in Brussels and a few very beautiful churches:
Inductive Bias
O'Reilly Strata - day one afternoon lectures
February 13, 2011
O’Reilly Strata - day one afternoon lectures # Big data at startups - Info ChimpsAs a startup to get good people there is no other option then to grow your own: Offer the option to gain a lot of experience in return for a not so great wage. Start out with really great hires: People who have the "get shit done gene": They discover new projects, are proud to contribute to team efforts, are confident in making changes to a code base probably not known before hand. ...
O'Reilly Strata - Day two - keynotes
February 12, 2011
O’Reilly Strata - Day two - keynotes # Day two of Strata started with a very inspiring insight from the host itself that extended the vision discussed earlier in the tutorials: It's not at all about the tools, the current data analytics value lies in the data itself and in the conclusions and actions drawn from analysing it. Bit.ly keynoteThe first key note was presented by bit.ly - for them there are four dimensions to data analytics: ...
O'Reilly Strata - Tutorial data analytics
February 11, 2011
O’Reilly Strata - Tutorial data analytics # Acting based on dataIt comes as no surprise to hear that also in the data analytics world engineers are unwilling to share details of how their analysis works with higher management - with on the other side not much interest on learning how analytics really works. This culture leads to a sort of black art, witch craft attitude to data analytics that hinders most innovation. ...
Teddy in San Francisco
February 10, 2011
Teddy in San Francisco # Before attending O'Reilly Strata there were a few days left to adjust to the different time zone, meet up with friends and generally spend some days in the Greater San Francisco area. As was to be expected, those were way to few days. The weekend was a bit rainy, still packed with visiting China town right after the plane had landed and spending some time at . ...
Slides of yesterday's Apache Hadoop Get Together
January 28, 2011
Slides of yesterday’s Apache Hadoop Get Together # This time with little less than 24 hours delay - the usual, by some impatiently expected, summary of the Apache Hadoop Get Together. The meetup took place at Zanox’ event campus. The room was well filled with some fourty attendees from various companies, experience with Hadoop ranging from interested beginners to experienced users. Slides of all presentations: Josh Devins on Hadoop at Nokia ...
CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - search, score, scale
January 26, 2011
CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - search, score, scale # This is to announce the Berlin Buzzwords 2011. The second edition of the successful conference on scalable and open search, data processing and data storage in Germany, taking place in Berlin. Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords http://berlinbuzzwords.de Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Store, Scale 6/7 June 2011 The event will comprise presentations on scalable data processing. We invite you to submit talks on the topics: ...
Apache Mahout in Amsterdam
January 25, 2011
Apache Mahout in Amsterdam # On February 7th there will be an Apache Mahout meetup in Amsterdam kindly organised by JTeam. There will be two presentations - one by myself on classification with Apache Mahout as well as a second one by Frank Scholten on clustering with Apache Mahout. Time: 18:00 Location: Frederiksplein 1, 1017XK Amsterdam, The Netherlands Looking forward to a few days in Amsterdam.
FOSDEM II 2011
January 23, 2011
FOSDEM II 2011 # It’s already sort of a nice little tradition for me to spend the first weekend in February in Brussels for FOSDEM. This year I am particulary happy that there will be a Data Analytics Dev Room at FOSDEM. A huge Thanks to @ogrisel and @nmaillot who have done most of the heavy lifting of getting the schedule in place. Looking forward to an interesting Cloud Track, to meeting Peter Hintjens who is going to give a talk on 0MQ, the DevOps presentation and lots of very interesting DevRooms. ...
O'Reilly Strata Conference
January 22, 2011
O’Reilly Strata Conference # Title: O’Reilly Strata Conference Location: Santa Clara Link out: Click here<br />Description: Early next February O’Reilly is planning to put on a very interesting conference on the topic of data analysis and the business of generating value from raw digital data. I’m really glad to have received the acceptance notification for my presentation and travel sponsorship from the DICODE project. So see you in Santa Clara. ...