Planet big data

Databricks and Spark update
I chatted last night with Ion Stoica, CEO of my client Databricks, for an update both on his company and Spark. Databricks’ actual business...

Your Phone as Life’s Platform, & Will the FTC or the FCC fix the IoT?
The most important thing you need to know right now about the Internet of Things (IoT) is that when you […]

Share it on facebook Because it's Friday: About that blue dress
The internet is agog over this picture of a dress, which appears white and gold to some, and blue and black to others: This...

John Chambers Statistical Software Award 2015
In 1998 John M. Chambers (now a member of R-core) won the ACM Software System Award for the S Language, which (in the words...

Hadoop Tutorial – Getting started with Apache Hadoop
Hadoop is one of the most popular Big Data technologies, or maybe the key Big Data technology. Due to large demand for Hadoop, I’ve decided...

Let the Elephants March On
One of my favorite technology books is Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors, which was given to me by my Dad (an...

Collaborative Computing with distcomp
by Joseph Rickert Distcomp, a new R package available on GitHub from a group of Stanford researchers has the potential to significantly advance the...

Talking about R, Data Science and Microsoft on theCUBE
It was a pleasure to appear live on theCUBE last week while attending the Strata conference. In my interview with Jeff Kelly and John...

Hortonworks did $12.7M in Q4, on its path to a billion, CEO says
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue...

Monitoring progress of a foreach parallel job
by Andrie de Vries R has strong support for parallel programming, both in base R and additional CRAN packages. For example, we have previously...