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Finding the optimum partition size while parallelizing large matrix operation in R | Paxcel Labs
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. While working on a statistical problem like large matrix calculations, parallelizing the calculations is really helpful. This study aims to find some optimum parameters while parallelizing R.
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Opportunities in data management with Hadoop
Being the latest sensation, media giants like Google, Facebook and Yahoo have decided to choose Hadoop for their data management predicaments.
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Hadoop? Most U.S. Companies Haven't Started That Big Data Journey
Even as Hadoop gains momentum as a big data platform, you might be surprised by the latest Hadoop deployment figures from a leading market researcher.
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Google building data center at Alabama power plant site
Google is converting an old coal-burning power plant in Alabama into a sleek data center running on renewable energy to fuel the additional computing capacity needed to process Internet search requests, show digital video, give directions, deliver email and store photos. The $600 million project announced Wednesday marks Google’s first commitment in eight years to build a U.S. data center. It will be the Internet company’s 14th data center in the world, including six others in the U.S.
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How life’s data becomes music to some ears
When Chris Chafe translates data into music, listeners sway to the beat of seizing brains, economic swings and smog
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Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide
Elasticsearch is a distributed, scalable, real-time search and analytics engine. It enables you to search, analyze, and explore your data, often in ways that you did not anticipate at the start of a project. It exists because raw data sitting on a hard drive is just not useful.
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How R can supercharge data science
With industry support in 3 key areas, we could accelerate the progress of R and enable a real revolution in the connected world.
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Who Cares About Your Health Data?
Personal health data is piling up fast, but what does it mean, and who is trying to make sense of it?
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Meet MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language That Predicted Big Data
The human body is an endless stream of numbers, from brain waves to blood cells to whatever else you can imagine or secrete, and most of those numbers are changing all of the time. You might even say that its potential for quantification, for producing raw data, is limitless—making that data useful, however, is a different matter entirely.
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Death by Flatulence and Other Shortcomings of Big Data
Bizarre fatalities and the limitations of the data revolution emerge from a review of CDC records
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The Data or the Hunch?
More and more decisions, from the music business to the sports field, are being delegated to data. But where does that leave our intuition? Ian Leslie figures it out
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World Population Pyramid
The World's best Population Pyramid covering 100 years of age and sex distribution for every country in the world.
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IBM's Watson using data to transform health care
IBM Watson once won $1 million playing "Jeopardy." Soon, it could be helping your doctor read your X-rays. IBM Watson Health aims to make sense of a growing pool of health care-related data to help patients and providers make better decisions. Deborah DiSanzo, former CEO of Philips Healthcare, was named its head and general manager in September. Since April, the health unit has added 100 companies to what IBM calls Ecosystem, allowing them to...
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What Should We Do About Big Data Leaks?
What is transparency in the age of massive database drops? What would happen if the things released in the interest of transparency were released in actual transparent formats?
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How Political Candidates Know If You’re Neurotic
The latest data-driven campaign pitches target you based on your personality, not just your demographics. But does such profiling work? By David Talbot.
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The Rise of Pirate Libraries
Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world's knowledge and give it away for free.
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Apple’s ‘Differential Privacy’ Is About Collecting Your Data—But Not Your Data
Apple, like practically every mega-corporation, wants to know as much as possible about its customers. But it’s also marketed itself as Silicon Valley’s privacy champion, one that—unlike so many of its advertising-driven competitors—wants to know as little as possible about you. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the company has now publicly boasted about its work in an obscure branch of mathematics that deals with exactly that paradox.
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Thinking about Big Data
“It’s through the elimination of human readability, then, that much progress has been made in machine learning.” By Robert X. Cringely, at I Cringely.
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Internal email: Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division; key exec Qi Lu leaving after bike injury
Microsoft says it has formed a new 5,000-person engineering and research team to focus on its artificial intelligence products — a major reshaping of the company’s internal structure reminiscent of its massive pivot to pursue the opportunity of the Internet in the mid-1990s. “We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in computing that is unlike anything we have seen in decades,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an internal email to employees this morning, the text of which was obtained by GeekWire.
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15 Useful Free Services To Create Online Data Backup
Taking a backup of the data that you are using for your work on the internet is one of the most important things that one must do.
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