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airbnb nerd blog 4/15/2013 – Airbnb is obsessed with creating a great experience for hosts and guests alike. One of several ways we work on doing this is by analyzing the various sources of data we have. We have a vast volume of data from various sources—logging, third party analytics, and our own internal sets of generated data.

GigaOm 4/08/2013 – The democratization of data is a real phenomenon, but building a sustainable data democracy means truly giving power to the people. The alternative is just a shift of power from traditional data analysts within IT departments to a new generation of data scientists and app developers. And this seems a lot more like a dictatorship than a democracy — a benevolent dictatorship, but a dictatorship nonetheless.

4/05/2013 – Data science is what makes the Industrial Internet—the emerging network of machines from jet engines to steam turbines to smart appliances—so valuable. Top leaders in the field discuss its future at a panel hosted by GE. The discussion focuses on the increasing importance of data science in industry and challenging the next generation of data scientists to define future applications. Joining GE’s data science leader Anil Varma will be: Anthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO of Kaggle; Hilary Mason, Chief Data Scientist at bitly; Annika Jimenez, Global Head of Data Science Services at Pivotal; and Dr. Andreas Weigend, from Stanford and UC-Berkeley’s joint Social Data Lab.

SpringSource Blog 4/03/2013 – By now you’ve probably heard about the Pivotal Initiative. I’d like to take a moment here to explain what this means for Spring, and to tell you about some of our plans for 2013. In case you missed it, here’s the essential background to the Pivotal: Led by Paul Maritz, the initiative unites key people and projects from across EMC and VMware to bring “consumer grade” technology to the enterprise.

O'Reilly 4/01/2013 – It helps to reduce context-switching during long data science workflows.