Strata News (aggregated)

Edd Dumbill Previews Strata Conference: Making Data Work 2012

Dave Vellante — 2012-01-29

Strata Week: Genome research kicks up a lot of data

Audrey Watters — 2012-01-26

Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

Edd Dumbill — 2012-01-25

Cloud Roundup for January 23, 2012

Joe Brockmeier — 2012-01-24

Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data

Alistair Croll — 2012-01-23

Cloudera Teams With O'Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences - MarketWatch (press release)

2012-01-23

Strata Week: A .data TLD?

Audrey Watters — 2012-01-12

Strata Week: A home for negative and null results

Audrey Watters — 2012-01-19

What is big data?

Edd Dumbill — 2012-01-11

Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber's dynamic pricing worked

Audrey Watters — 2012-01-05

Understanding randomness is a double-edged sword - O'Reilly Radar

2012-01-05

Strata Week: New open-data initiatives in Canada and the UK - Open data from StatsCan and Whitehall, Dell open sources its Hadoop tool, and what we can learn from old library records.

Audrey Watters — 2011-12-01

Strata Week: 4.74 degrees of Kevin Bacon - Facebook says we're closer than we thought, Gnip targets finance, and eBay grabs Hunch.

Audrey Watters — 2011-11-22

Facebook research questions the "six degrees of separation" rule, Gnip gets into the real-time financial data business, and eBay looks to put Hunch's recommendation engine to use.

Strata Week: Why ThinkUp matters - ThinkUp and data ownership, DataSift turns on its Twitter firehose, and Google cracks opens the door to BigQuery.

Audrey Watters — 2011-11-17

Data democratization gets an important new tool with the release of ThinkUp 1.0. Also, DataSift offers another way to get the Twitter firehose, and Google offers a little more access to its BigQuery data analytics service.

Strata Week: The social graph that isn't - Pinboard founder questions the social graph, Cloudera and Kaggle raise money for big data.

Audrey Watters — 2011-11-10

In this week's data news, Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski challenges the notion of a "social graph," Cloudera and Kaggle raise money for big data, and the Supreme Court looks at GPS and privacy issues.

Strata Week: Cloudera founder has a new data product - Odiago hints at the future of Hadoop-based services, Hortonworks shows off its products, and big data comes to edu material.

Audrey Watters — 2011-11-03

Cloudera's founder launches Odiago, a new data startup. Elsewhere, Hortonworks reveals its suite of Hadoop products and services, and Knewton and Pearson bring big data to education content.

Strata Week: IBM puts Hadoop in the cloud

Audrey Watters — 2011-10-27

IBM targets businesses with a cloud-based Hadoop product, Factual tackles incomplete geo records, and Google embraces transparency by publishing and explaining the data requests it gets from governments.

Strata Week: A step toward personal data control

Audrey Watters — 2011-10-20

Data democratization takes a step forward with Singly 1.0, The New York Times and The Guardian debate the finer points of word clouds, and Mary Meeker presents her annual report on Internet trends.

Strata Week: Simplifying MapReduce through Java

Audrey Watters — 2011-10-13

Cloudera's Crunch hopes to make MapReduce easier, Datafiniti launches a search engine for data, and the University of Oxford releases an Android app for monitoring CERN data.

Strata Week: Oracle's big data play

Audrey Watters — 2011-10-06

In this week's data news, Oracle unveils its big data strategy, and Cloudera looks at the contributions to the Hadoop core and community.

Strata Week: Facebook builds a new look for old data

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-29

This week's data news includes news on Facebook's Timeline, observations of neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light, and Hollywood's take on data analysis.

Strata Week: Crowdsourcing and gaming spur a scientific breakthrough - Fold.it users make a scientific breakthrough, Twitter open sources real-time processing tool, Google faces a senate hearing.

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-22

In this week's data news: Fold.it gamers help with HIV research, Twitter eyes data analytics, and Google testifies before the Senate.

Strata Week: MapReduce gets its arms around a million songs - MapReduce crunches a million-song dataset, GPS and accident reconstruction, and WWI crowdsourcing.

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-08

This week's data stories include a guide to using MapReduce to process the Million Song Dataset, a story about how GPS data can help reconstruct lost memories (and accidents), and evidence that emergency crowdsourcing goes back further than many realize.

Strata Week: What happens when 200,000 hard drives work together? - IBM is building a massive 120-petabyte array and Infochimps releases a unified geo schema.

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-01

IBM takes data storage to a whole new level (120 petabytes, to be exact), Infochimps' new API tries to make life easier for geo developers, and the "Internet of people" keeps an eye on Hurricane Irene.

The application of real-time data - Hilary Mason on how Bitly applies the Internet's real-time data.

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-29

In this interview, Bitly chief scientist and Strata speaker Hilary Mason discusses the application of real-time data and the difference between analytics and data science.

Strata Week: Green pigs and data - Rovio mines data to improve Angry Birds, HP bets on big data, Daily Dot parses the social web for stories.

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-25

Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, is using data and analytics to keep bird-launching gamers plugged in. Also, HP's acquisition of Autonomy reveals its data intentions, and the Daily Dot finds stories with an assist from data journalism.

Cybercrime - Getting Robbed Isn't What It Used To Be...

Stu Sjouwerman — 2011-09-26

O'Reilly Strata Conference: Making Data Work

Colleen Miller — 2011-09-28

The Convergence of Big Data Baseball and Pizza at Strata

Paul Wilke — 2011-09-28

Strata NY 2011 [Day 1]: The Human Scale of Big Data

Mimi Rojanasakul — 2011-09-28

O'Reilly Strata

unknown — 2011-09-29

The Human Scale of Big Data (Strata NY 2011)

Angie Chang — 2011-09-28

By Mimi Rojanasakul (Student, Communications Design at Pratt Institute) The 2011 Strata Conference in New York City kicked off on Thursday with a brief introduction by O’Reilly’s own Ed Dumbill. He ventures a bold assessment of the present social condition and how data science plays into it: the growth of our networks, government, and information [...] Want more news on entrepreneurs and building new technology? Try reading:

DataStax Secures $11 Million in Funding; Driving Apache Cassandra™ Momentum

2011-09-21

DataStax Secures $11 Million in Funding; Driving Apache Cassandra™ Momentum ...
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21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Reilly Strata Summit – Today at the O'Reilly Strata Summit, DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™, announced it has closed an $11 million Series B round of financing from new investor Crosslink Capital and ...
DataStax Launches DataStax EnterpriseMarketWatch (press release)

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Tyler Bell's and Leo Polovets' Post-Game Interviews from Strata NYC

Factual Staff — 2011-09-27

Wrestling with Data in the Big Apple: Strata Summit 2011

Shane Shifflett — 2011-09-27

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Wrestling with Data in the Big Apple: Strata Summit 2011
The Bay Citizen (blog)
Hundreds of developers and data junkies descended on Times Square last Tuesday for Strata Summit, a two-day conference to grapple with the problems and possibilities of ever-growing data ...

Strata Week: Crowdsourcing and gaming spur a scientific breakthrough - Fold.it users make a scientific breakthrough, Twitter open sources real-time processing tool, Google faces a senate hearing.

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-22

In this week's data news: Fold.it gamers help with HIV research, Twitter eyes data analytics, and Google testifies before the Senate.

In the Pipeline: A Tidal Wave of Data

Rich Miller — 2011-09-26

Will Big Data Create As Much Prosperity As Little Data?

Jon Bruner — 2011-09-26

Google+ May Have 43 Million Users

Miranda Miller — 2011-09-26

Tatiana Becker interviewed at Strata New York 2011

unknown — 2011-09-26

Cultural Metamorphosis at Strata Conference

Wayne Eckerson — 2011-09-22

Cory Doctorow: Tech Companies Exploit the Way We Undervalue Privacy

Ciara Byrne — 2011-09-23

Strata Vizathlon Contest Winner

Julie Steele — 2011-09-26

Crimesourcing and How Data Criminals are Like Startup Employees

Ciara Byrne — 2011-09-23

Strata Conference: Making Data Work

Mellisa Tolentino — 2011-09-19

Facebook Tracks What You Do Online, Even When You're Logged Out

Dylan Tweney — 2011-09-25

This Week in Big Data: from Strata Summit to Twitter Storm

Saroj Kar — 2011-09-24

Strata New York 2011: Ken Bado, "Big Data, Big Opportunity"

unknown — 2011-09-24

Where the Geeks Go

K.N.C. — 2011-09-23

Data Visualization Doesn't Need to be Biased

David Smith — 2011-09-24

The Future of Sentiment Analysis

2011-09-26

Online content is published so fast and furious these days that no one can read it all. Ears are burning at corporate brands, too, because much of that web content is talking about them. What are people saying? One part of answering that question is to ask how people seem to be feeling about the things they are talking about. Scalable, automated, accurate, sophisticated sentiment analysis is a much sought-after technology that almost no one has really nailed yet.

Jennifer Zeszut was the founder and CEO of Scout Labs, a social media monitoring service acquired by social CRM company Lithium in 2010. ScoutLabs does sentiment analysis, among other things, at Zeszut spoke at the O'Reilly Strata Summit on Big Data this week about the things her company has done that she believes point toward the future of this red hot tech trend.

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Zeszut worked previously at eBay and Avenue A I Razorfish. She recently adressed the White House on how to best support tech startups.

Here's a summary of her advice about sentiment analysis, for companies that build it and customers that buy it.

Harness the wisdom of crowds - scale and let your algorithm learn. Zeszut says that once ScoutLabs got enough scale, across hundreds of companies with hundreds of users at many of them, it was common for one user to manually reclassify the sentiment on an item that was relevant to other users as well. Zeszut says that making sure her algorithm learned from that was key.
Don't stop at positive, negative or neutral sentiment. How about noticing people at a moment of indecision? Imagine wishes, caveats, comparisons and preferences. "You should push your vendors for more than just positive, negative and neutral," Zeszut says.
Architect for flexibility: if you built a sentiment engine 10 years ago - it won't work today. If you don't build for flexibility now - it will not work in 5 years. Several speakers throughout the day discussed the balance between art and science in working with big data.

"Thank you," Zeszut concluded, "to the Googles and Twitters of the world for giving us metadata, demographic data, geodata. With that set of metadata as one of the features we can filter on easily we use to get be more nuanced in what we offer and be more expansive about how we build the algorithms."

Photo by Pinar ÃÂzger for O'Reilly.

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The Lessons of Moneyball for Big Data Analysis - Data Center Knowledge

2011-09-26

Data Center Knowledge

The Lessons of Moneyball for Big Data Analysis
Data Center Knowledge
Hill's character is based on Mets executive Paul DePodesta, who spoke at the Strata Summit this week. Long before Ã¢ÂÂBig DataÃ¢ÂÂ analysis was cool, Paul DePodesta brought it to the big leagues. And today, his story will be told on the big screen. ...

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Dr. Richard Merkin Awards $50000 to the Progress Prize Winners in the $3 ...

2011-09-26

Dr. Richard Merkin Awards $50000 to the Progress Prize Winners in the $3 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, presented checks totaling $50000 to the two teams leading the $3million Heritage Health Prize competition at the six month mark at the Strata ...

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EMC Launches Greenplum Analytics Appliance

Staff — 2011-09-23

Crimesourcing, crime as a service and how data criminals are like startup employees

Ciara Byrne — 2011-09-23

DataSift the Provider of Aggregated Social Data Feeds to Endeca

datasift — 2011-09-23

DataSift Partners with HStreaming to Bring Real-Time Advanced Analytics to Social Media

Alaina Draper — 2011-09-22

The Information Dilemma

Roger Ehrenberg — 2011-09-22

Cooking The Data Is The New Cooking The Books

Alistair Croll — 2011-09-21

People analytics: How Google does HR by the Numbers

Ciara Byrne — 2011-09-20

Endeca and DataSift Team to Analyse the Real Time Web

Tom Woods — 2011-09-22

Teradata's Aster Analytic Database Gets Appliance Treatment

Chris Kanaracus — 2011-09-22

Issa Talks DATA Act and Transparency at Strata Conference

Vishal Ganesan — 2011-09-21

Google Plus & the Data Scientist Who's Navigating It to Hell

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2011-09-21

"Our ambition is to up-level the model of social networking. We want to support asymmetric relationships with brands and celebrities - but we also wanted to support intimate communication with real life friends and family. Could we do both of those things? Being all things to all people is the path to hell - but could we do it?"

-Bradley Horowitz of Google

Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management and a leader of the Google Plus social network, said a lot of very interesting things today in an interview with Tim O'Reilly at the Strata Summit on Big Data. One of the most interesting, though, was to quietly introduce the data scientist behind Google Plus and its future development. Dr. Andrew Tomkins (above) used to be the Chief Scientist of Search at Yahoo but two years ago left and joined Google. No one noticed. At least no one indexed by Google News. Today we learned what Tomkins has been doing since joining Google. He's nerding-out on social network user activity data and gathering observations to help Google Plus aim to be all things to all people. Andrew Tomkins is charting the path to hell.

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Plus as Data-Driven

"We have a complex service that contains a lot of components and we want to do it in a data-driven way," Horowitz told O'Reilly on stage this afternoon. "You'll begin to see data-driven insights come out into the light of day soon, based on a bleeding edge understanding of how people are using social networks. We have a research team lead by Andrew Tomkins, who is one of the great data scientists and who is coming up with insights that are informing the development of our service."

What kinds of data is the Tomkin's Plus research team surfacing so far? Horowitz noted several in his interview.

Users of Plus are two to three times as likely to post content to private circles than they are to post it publicly. In other words, the numbers say the Circles metaphor is working so far.
The new Search functionality will in the future identify topic experts, based on algorithmic analysis of the things they discuss and other signals.
Automatic prioritization of social contacts: "We have great data to determine who you really care about. The phone contacts list is key. The data belongs to the users though and we need to find the best way to serve it up to them."

Horowitz and O'Reilly talked dreamily about a sensor-rich future where almost unimaginable technologies were built on tidal waves of data. "Imagine we all opted-in and donated our microphone sensors in this room to capture an aggregate of data," he imagined. "There will be sensors like dust everywhere and it will be [technologists' job] to harvest that data and return it as killer apps."

Who's Andrew Tomkins?

Andrew Tomkins, whose time at Yahoo overlapped with Horowitz and who's worked at IBM as well, is quoted in Steven Levy's deep dive coverage of Plus at launch regarding Sparks, the persistent search feature that sounded today like it was going to get a refresh as part of the launch of search.

Horowitz said today that Tomkins leads the Plus research team, is one of the best in the business and that research is going to drive future development and publicly shared insights in the near term future.

Tomkins got a Computer Science undergrad degree from MIT in the late 80's, then a CS PhD from Carnegie Mellon in the 90's. He's co-authored 12 research papers about data mining published across 9 different publications in the past 10 years.

But he has only shared one post publicly, outside of Circles, on Google Plus - ever. He's followed by two hundred people on that service and not a single journalist (until this afternoon, at least). He seems quite open to talking to press, though, so hopefully I'll follow up with him after today and offer a more detailed discussion of his thinking.

None the less, if Paul Adams, former Googler turned Facebook employee and author of the widely-read presentation that inspired the Circles metaphor, is the philosophical granddaddy of the hot new social network - it sounds like Andrew Tomkins could be the man who is leading the young service into a data-driven future.

Good luck, Dr. Tomkins, may you build something that is all things to all people. And if "don't be evil" seems an antiquated Google slogan, then perhaps we should say...may it not in fact be a path to hell.

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Back from Strata Jumpstart

Cathy O'Neil — 2011-09-20

Twice As Much Google+ Data Is Shared Privately As Publicly: A Challenge to Facebook

Jon Bruner — 2011-09-21

Data Science in the Mainstream

David Smith — 2011-09-20

DataSift and Datameer Launch New Partnership Offering Social Analytics Solution 'DataSift Insights'

Webmaster — 2011-09-21

Google Plus Users 2-3 Times More Likely to Post Privately

Richard MacManus — 2011-09-21

Scenes from Strata Summit 2011

Rich Miller — 2011-09-21

EMC Announces 1000 Node Analytic Platform to Accelerate Industry's Hadoop Testing and Development

David Oro — 2011-09-21

DataSift Insights

DataSift — 2011-09-21

Big Data-Driven Online Marketing Analytics Top Business Impact

Teradata — 2011-09-20

Data Philanthropy is Good for Business

Robert Kirkpatrick — 2011-09-20

Cooking the Data

Alistair Croll — 2011-09-20

Cloudera Cofounder and CTO Amr Awadallah to Present at 2011 O'Reilly Strata Conference in New York City

Hope Nicora — 2011-09-20

Signs of Progress on Government 2.0

Rich Miller — 2011-09-21

Greenplum Appliances Swing Both Ways

Timothy Prickett Morgan — 2011-09-21

DataStax Launches DataStax Enterprise

DataStax — 2011-09-21

Life in the Future, With Data: Livestreaming O'Reilly's Strata Conference

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2011-09-20

Story Telling - the Art, Science, and Business of Data: Talking with Edd Dumbill about Strata, NYC, 2011

Tish Shute — 2011-08-31

Strata Conference: Making Data Work

Mellisa Tolentino — 2011-07-19

Strata Week: What happens when 200,000 hard drives work together? - IBM is building a massive 120-petabyte array and Infochimps releases a unified geo schema.

Audrey Watters — 2011-09-01

Strata New York conference livestream

Simon Rogers — 2011-09-19

The application of real-time data - Hilary Mason on how Bitly applies the Internet's real-time data.

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-29

In this interview, Bitly chief scientist and Strata speaker Hilary Mason discusses the application of real-time data and the difference between analytics and data science.

Brands Still Not Welcome on Google+

Robert Hof — 2011-08-23

Google Feels the Pain of Users Who Can't Get on Google+

Juan Carlos Perez — 2011-08-23

What happens when Google+ cuts you off?

Stephen Shankland — 2011-08-23

'Inside Google+' Webcast light on social insights

Laura Locke — 2011-08-23

Strata Week: Green pigs and data

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-25

People, Data and Dollars -- A Preview of Strata NY - A Free Live Online Conference - Aug 31 @ 9am PT

O'Reilly Media — 2011-08-24

This September, O'Reilly's Strata Summit and Conference brings the Business of Data to New York. It's a five-day event on how ubiquitous, connecting information is changing the world around us. In this special online event, you'll get an inside look at some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the fields of business, data, and disruption. Register for the webcast now. More upcoming webcasts: Sneak Peek - BookRiff, LiquidText, and MagAppZinePresented by Paul Canetti, Rochelle Grayson, Craig TashmanAugust 25, 2011 @ 10 PT Create better Office 2010 documents, presentations, and workbooks more easilyPresented by Stephanie KriegerAugust 26, 2011 @ 10 PT Securing Windows 7 and Internet ExplorerPresented by Mike HalseySeptember 1, 2011 @ 10 PT Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events.

Strata Week: Cracking a book's genetic code - Decoding book DNA, parsing Wikipedia with WikiHadoop, and the rise of the "Data Civilization"

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-18

BookLamp and the Book Genome Project look to book DNA for smarter recommendations, sorting through Wikipedia's vast data dump gets easier thanks to WikiHadoop, and a timeline from WolframAlpha charts major milestones in data knowledge.

Create a great visualization, win a pass to Strata

O'Reilly Media — 2011-08-17

Our Strata Vizathlon competition urges you to find creative new ways to represent food data in a compelling visual manner. It ends Aug. 28, but those who act quickly have a chance to win a trip to the Strata Conference in New York and other great prizes. Learn more and get started.

Inside Google+: Bradley Horowitz Talks with Tim O'Reilly

Maureen Jennings — 2011-08-18

Big Data And The Innovator's Dilemma

Alistair Croll — 2011-08-09

Data science is a pipeline between academic disciplines

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-16

Strata speaker and PhD candidate Drew Conway discusses how data science is influencing the processes and outcomes of academic research in the social sciences.

Strata Week: Twitter's coming Storm, data and maps from the London riots - Twitter plans to open source its Hadoop-like data processing tool, Storm.

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-11

This week's data news includes Twitter's plans to open-source its Hadoop-like data processing tool and some of the various mapping and real-time data efforts tracking the London riots.

Strata Week: Hadoop adds security to its skill set - Hadoop and security, surprising results from a consumer data survey, and disconcerting data retention legislation.

Audrey Watters — 2011-08-04

In the latest Strata Week: Will big data offer us more security insights? Or will large data stores become targets for security threats? Plus: A very old map gets a digital upgrade.

Strata Week: How Facebook moved 30 petabytes of Hadoop data - Facebook migrates to a new datacenter, Ex-NASA CTO launches Nebula

Audrey Watters — 2011-07-28

In the latest Strata Week: Migrating 30 petabytes of Hadoop data, democratizing cloud computing, and "liking" library metadata.

Strata Week: When does data access become data theft? - Questions surround the Aaron Swartz case and Microsoft wants to help scholars with big data.

Audrey Watters — 2011-07-21

Aaron Swartz faces felony charges for downloading "big data" (more than 4 million academic journals) from the MIT library, Microsoft's new data tool is aimed at scholars, and David Eaves looks at open data efforts in Canada.

Strata Week: There's money in data sifting

Audrey Watters — 2011-07-14

In the latest Strata Week: DataSift's access to the Twitter firehose proves compelling for investors, the inner workings of Google Plus are revealed, and contestants crank out apps for education.

Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2011-07-20

Strata Week: How much of the web is archived? - Cataloging the web's attic, improving healthcare data collection, Twitter buys BackType

Audrey Watters — 2011-07-07

In the latest Strata Week: Researchers are trying to figure out how much of the web has been archived, the Department of Health and Human Services looks to improve healthcare data collection, and Twitter acquires Backtype.

Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control

Audrey Watters — 2011-06-30

Google launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps.

Strata Week: Data Without Borders - Work on data projects that matter, data journalism, and a social graph of the Marvel universe.

Audrey Watters — 2011-06-23

This week's big data news includes a call for Data Without Borders, data journalism catches the Knight Foundation's attention, IBM's new big data appliance, and a social graph built around the Marvel universe.

Strata Week: The effort to digitize Palin's email archive - Dealing with Sarah Palin's emails, privacy legislation, and a new Hadoop competitor

Audrey Watters — 2011-06-16

In the latest Strata Week: Sarah Palin's 24,000-page email archive gets digitized, location tracking bills are proposed, and LexisNexis gets into the big data game with an alternative to Hadoop.

Strata Week: The fears of face recognition - Fears over Facebook's face recognition, hacked passwords get analyzed, and a video game taps historical data.

Audrey Watters — 2011-06-09

Stories this week examine some of the fears — real and imagined — around our social data, our privacy and security. But in case we forget the great things social data can build, we also look at the archival data behind the video game "L.A. Noire."

Strata Week: Hadoop competition heats up - Vendors jockey for Hadoop positioning, Facebook visualizes PHP modules, Shaq's stats

Audrey Watters — 2011-06-02

Competition among Hadoop vendors heats up, Facebook visualizes its PHP code modules, and a Many Eyes tool visualizes the stats from Shaquille O'Neal's basketball career.

Strata Week: The mortality rate of URLs - Parsing link rot, visualizing Wikipedia edits, and deconstructing autocorrect

Audrey Watters — 2011-05-26

In the latest Strata Week: How quickly do URLs die? Where in the world are Wikipedia editors? How does the iPhone autocorrect work (or not)?

Strata Week: Data tools, data weapons, data stories - Another AVOS acquisition, the political power of data, and data's storytelling prowess.

Audrey Watters — 2011-05-12

In the latest Strata Week: An AVOS acquisition hints at what's to come, a ranking tool reveals data's intimidation factor, and a look at how scientific papers might evolve.

Strata Week: Will data make stock exchanges unnecessary? - Data could disrupt the stock world, how stolen data is sold, and geography data's predictive power

Audrey Watters — 2011-05-05

Will big data kill the stock exchange? That question was recently explored by Andy Kessler. Plus: How recent security breaches could shape the black market and a look at how "island biogeography" predicted Osama Bin Laden's location.

Big Data in the Big Apple: O'Reilly Introduces Strata New York

Maureen Jennings — 2011-06-13

Strata Week: Overcharging algorithms - Algorithms go awry on Amazon, the future of Hadoop at Yahoo, and the Supreme Court mulls data mining

Audrey Watters — 2011-04-28

In this Strata Week: Algorithm pricing on Amazon pushes the price of a biology book to astronomical levels, Yahoo weighs the future of Hadoop, and the Supreme Court hears arguments about a Vermont law restricting the data mining of prescription records.

Strata Week: A call for open science data

Audrey Watters — 2011-05-19