Even if you have petabyes of data, you still need to know how to ask the right questions to apply it.
by Alistair Croll
| @acroll
| 9 August 2011
Having a lot of data is not the same as using it well. Today's big companies are losing to small upstarts simply because those firms ask better questions. To compete, large enterprises need to learn how to harvest the data they have on customers, markets, competitors, and products.
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Low costs and cloud tools are empowering new data startups.
by Michael Driscoll
| @medriscoll
| +Michael Driscoll | 9 August 2011
The emergence of data startups highlights the democratizing consequences of a maturing big data stack. Companies can now build offerings and turn their focus to developing analytics and services.
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Graph ORM, Graphic Computation, Web Intents, and Async RPC
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 8 August 2011
- Bulbflow -- a Python framework for graph databases: it's like an ORM for graphs. (via Joshua Schachter)
- Nomograms -- the lost art of graphical computing. (via John D Cook)
- Web Intents -- adding Android-style Intents to the web. Services register their intention to be able to handle an action on the user's behalf. Applications request to start an Action of a certain verb (share, edit, view, pick etc) and the system will find the appropriate Services for the user to use based on the user's preference.
- Finagle (GitHub) -- Twitter's asynchronous network stack for the JVM that you can use to build asynchronous Remote Procedure Call (RPC) clients and servers in Java, Scala, or any JVM-hosted language. Finagle provides a rich set of tools that are protocol independent.
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Opera Solutions' Arnab Gupta says human plus machine always trumps human vs machine.
by Julie Steele
| @jsteeleeditor
| 2 August 2011
Managing data and extracting meaning require new approaches, new education, and even a new language. Opera Solutions CEO Arnab Gupta discusses each of these areas in the following interview.
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Traditional methods come through when connected systems fail.
by Tim O'Reilly
| @timoreilly
| +Tim O'Reilly | 1 August 2011
A couple of months ago, I had a remarkable demonstration of the fragility of the "always on" connected mindset.
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What's the source for Google's Official List of Bad Words?
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 1 August 2011
Google's Official List of Bad Words (NSFW, duh) caught my eye, not least because I consider myself a student of obscenity.
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