Dating by Data and Design
Online dating has come a long way from its somewhat dubious beginnings — it’s likely a friend, relative, or even yourself has found a partner through a matchmaking site. Much of that can be attributed to online dating services becoming increasingly effective at identifying matches, a feat that requires a sophisticated understanding of the psychology of attraction, interface design, and of course, a wealth of user data.
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Building a Strategic Data Organization
This Big Data thing Is…Well…Big!
Early this year I made a big career move: after almost 7 years working at Yahoo! I joined Greenplum as our VP of Product Management. The excitement of the new job has been exhilarating — new industries to understand, Big Data challenges to solve, and the fast moving pace of a “start-up-like” company. I’ve always enjoyed learning new things — it was what I liked best about working in the central data team at Yahoo!.
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A Day in the Life of a Data Journalist
The Guardian is one of the most aggressive and forward-thinking news organizations to embrace data journalism in recent years. It has assembled a top-flight data science team, created a slew of impressive visualized news packages, and released the eBook Facts are Sacred: The Power of Data, one of the foundational texts for the emerging field.
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Tips for Employers On the Hunt for the Rare and Elusive Data Scientist
We’ve previously talked about the high demand for data scientists, and the eclectic backgrounds of practitioners in the field. The discipline is so relatively new that enterprises and organizations that are aware of their Big Data needs may still be unclear about what they’re looking for in new hires.
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Managing Hot and Cold Data Using a Unified Storage System
In my previous blog post, “Hadoop and Disparate Data Stores”, I introduced a project Greenplum is working on that abstracts various storage options within an organization under a unified layer referred to as Unified Storage System (USS). The advantage of USS is that it can help with the Tiering of Storage, a concept that has been around for some time, but is unfamiliar to some.
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The 2012 Election and the Importance of Effectively Communicating Data-Driven Insights
The big winner – or at least the biggest story – of the 2012 Election may be Big Data and the practice of data science. From the Obama campaign’s data-driven electioneering directed by Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani, to the pundit-confounding and uncannily accurate projections of Nate Silver and other statisticians, this may go down as “The Nerdiest Election Ever,” as Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman declared.
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Demonstrating the Future of Data Science at the Strata Conference
A wise man once said only a fool would attempt a live demonstration (anyone remember Bill Gates and Windows 98?). Apparently I am that fool. Last month at the Strata Conference, my cohort Matt Neglay and I presented a talk, “Demonstrating the Future of Data Science.” As we demonstrated to the standing room-only crowd, data science is changing.
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