Big Data - Guilherme Braccialli

Some interesting numbers found in posts about biggest hadoop clusters: Yahoo:  32,000 nodes benchmarking environment: 300 nodes Twitt...

Worth reading, new proposals to boost hive performance using Materialized Queries and much more advanced in-memory resources / cache: Foll...

This epic Beyond MapReduce panel explores what's driving new data processing models in Hadoop. Hadoop founders discuss how the competiti...

Python is one of the most used language for Data Science. Where to start? IPython notebook is an interactive web-environment and scikit-...

source: http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/06/this-map-reveals-exactly-where-silicon-valley-gets-its-talent/

Facebook deployed is HDFS RAID, an implementation of Erasure Codes in HDFS to reduce the replication factor of data in HDFS. It maintains ...

Very interesting hive presentations at Hadoop Summit 2014 - San Jose: 1- A Perfect Hive Query For A Perfect Meeting- Hive performance tuni...

Now you can download a vmware with SAS software running totally functional and FREE for students. Features: - An intuitive interface that...

5 R's: Relevant, Real-time, Realistic, Reliable, ROI source: http://www.mapr.com/blog/business-leaders-need-r%E2%80%99s-not-v%E2%8...

Languages of the world according Twitter: Wikipedia Languages: source: http://www.vox.com/a/internet-maps#list-37

"At Kaggle, we run machine learning projects internally and also crowdsources some projects through open competitions. We’ll cover the ...

Interesting post about Agile + Big Data projects: http://strata.oreilly.com/2014/05/how-to-be-agile-with-your-big-data.html

That's the first article I read about Spark talking about problems and difficulties. Special attention to tunning parameters: http://b...

Tutorial to set up R-Hadoop packages, making possible to execute R codes using map-reduce paradigm: http://www.rdatamining.com/tutorials/r...

1. Google Search There was a time not too long ago when search engines battled it out for Internet supremacy. But along came Google and it...

"Feature selection is often an important step in applications of machine learning methods and there are good reasons for this. Modern ...

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses. They became popular in 2012 with Coursera (most famous MOOC website/plataform). You can find ...

Batch (using Hadoop) and streaming (using Storm) image tagging at Flickr. article: http://code.flickr.net/2014/05/20/computer-vision-at-s...

"Microsoft will by the end of 2014 start offering on-the-fly language translation within Skype, firstly in a Windows 8 beta app and the...

Article about Andrew Ng's experiment (called google brain) using 16 computers with NVidia GPUs with performance compared to 1.000 comput...

"Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network t...

"MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that learns what’s happening in videos by piecing together the things it sees into a compl...

Article and paper about Facebook's deep learning recognizing people in images. links: http://gigaom.com/2014/03/18/facebook-shows-off...

What is the biggest data set that you processed, and how did you process it, what were the results? Tell me two success stories about yo...

It's time to start automating data science tasks. Nowadays, most of data scientists spends too much time choosing best set of features...

Just for fun... Somebody asked in a forum: What are some good resources for learning about distributed computing? The answer is a huge-...

No doubt we are on the top of Big Data Hype Cycle, but is there a bubble? Check-out this post: http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/03/10/big-d...

Most (if not all) open-source big data projects were inspired on Google's technologies after Google publishing papers describing how the...

Everyone knows that the amount of data exploded, although technology also advanced, tasks involving exploration of petabyte datasets are not...

I read the article on:  http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/05/23/introduction-machine-learning/ It's not exactly an article, there are lot...

Upcoming webinar: Analyzing Data with Python "Python is quickly becoming the go-to language for data analysis, but it can be difficu...

"There's a revolution calling! Lambda expressions are coming in Java 8 but how can developers benefit? We'll go through a serie...

I confess I got a little bit disappointed reading the article below. Ok, it doesn't matter if they have tricks or not, a self-driving ...

Did you finished reading all the news, from all the blogs ? (not my case) If you have enough time, this link ( http://www.informationweek....

Google paper about Video Classification using Neural Networks. paper:  https://plus.google.com/+ResearchatGoogle/posts/eqSPSviY2CH Look ...

Upcoming webinar: Data Analysis on Streams "Analyzing real-time data poses special kinds of challenges, such as dealing with large e...

using visualization to identify cultural connections among @TEDx source:  https://twitter.com/alexgiess/status/468832127283232768/pho...

1) Actian — Business-oriented data management solutions to transact, analyze and take automated action across business operations. They hav...

Airbnb ($10 billion) Ask CEO Brian Chesky about Airbnb, and he'll put it simply: "We are a hospitality company." Indeed, in t...