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The Why, What and How of Open Data
Jeni Tennison explains how to evaluate an organization's data assets as potential sources of open data, and how to deal with the thorny issues of derived and personal data.
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The Data-Reader's Guide to the Galaxy
Steve Miner discusses tag literals and data readers, what’s new in Clojure 1.5, and EDN (Extensible Data Notation).
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API Conf Fireside Chat: Stephane Dubois, CEO and Founder at Xignite
Stephane Dubois shares insight in Xignite’s road building a business model providing APIs for accessing financial data.
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Tackling Complex Data with Neo4j
Ian Robinson discusses the complexity of highly connected data and how graph databases can help, illustrating the talk with practical examples implemented using Neo4j.
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APIs in Government
Gray Brooks discusses the efforts around creating APIs for accessing the vast amounts of data administered by the US Government.
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Introducing the BBC's Linked Data Platform and APIs
David Rogers outlines how a highly-scalable RDF and SPARQL-based API was delivered, how a graph of highly-connected data can be managed effectively across a large organization, and more.
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Clojure, Functional Programming and Data at uSwitch.com
Paul Ingles explains how Clojure’s approach to immutable data has helped uSwitch to treat everything as data and build many tools that operate on the same data without contention.
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The Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons proposes taking a different look at data, using different approaches and tools, then looks at some of the ways social data is used these days.
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Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics
Dmitriy Ryaboy shares some of the lessons learned scaling Twitter’s analytics infrastructure: Data loves a schema, Make data sources discoverable, and Make costs visible.
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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.
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Data Structures: The Code That Isn't There
Scott Vokes presents several less known data structures and their advantages: skiplists, difference lists, rolling hashes, and jumpropes.
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Eventually-Consistent Data Structures
Sean Cribbs discusses Convergent Replicated Data Types, data structures that tolerate eventual consistency.