InfoQ Homepage Data Analysis Content on InfoQ
-
An API for Distributed Computing
Cliff Click introduces a coding style & API for in-memory analytics that handles datasets from 1K to 1TB without changing a line of code and clusters with TB of RAM and hundreds of CPUs.
-
From The Lab To The Factory: Building A Production Machine Learning Infrastructure
Josh Wills discusses using Hadoop technologies to build real-time data analysis models with a focus on strategies for data integration, large-scale machine learning, and experimentation.
-
R for Big Data
Indrajit Roy presents HP Labs’ attempts at scaling R to efficiently perform distributed machine learning and graph processing on industrial-scale data sets.
-
Deploying Machine Learning and Data Science at Scale
Nick Kolegraff discusses common problems and architecture to support all the phases of data science and how to start a data science initiative, sharing lessons from Accenture, Best Buy, and Rackspace.
-
Functional Programming for Optimization Problems with City of Palo Alto Open Data
Paco Nathan reviews an example data analysis application written in Cascalog used for a recommender system based on City of Palo Alto Open Data.
-
Add ALL the Things: Abstract Algebra Meets Analytics
Avi Bryant discusses how the laws of group theory provide a useful codification of the practical lessons of building efficient distributed and real-time aggregation systems.
-
"Big Data" Agile Analytics
Ken Collier discusses Agile Analytics, a combination of sophisticated analytics techniques, lean learning principles, agile delivery methods, and "big data" technologies.
-
Making the Internet a Better Place: Scaling AppNexus
Mike Nolet shares lessons learned scaling AppNexus and architectural details of their system processing 30TB/day: Hadoop, DNS built in GSLB and Keepalived, and real-time data streaming built in C.
-
Apache Drill - Interactive Query and Analysis at Scale
Michael Hausenblas introduces Apache Drill, a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, including its architecture and typical use cases.
-
A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explains how to understand the forces and tensions within a graph structure and to apply graph theory in order to predict how the graph will evolve over time.
-
A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop
Uri Laserson reviews the different available Python frameworks for Hadoop, including a comparison of performance, ease of use/installation, differences in implementation, and other features.
-
Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons reviews some of the changes in how data is used and analyzed, looking at how data is used to track violence, and attempts to predict famine and other crises before they happen.