1. Facebook's Top Open Data Problems
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| Here’s what Facebook considers their biggest open data challenges. |
2. Reconstructing Weather
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| Volunteers are digitizing weather reports from old naval logbooks so climate scientists can create "a three-dimensional computer simulation that will provide a continuous, century-and-a-half-long profile of the entire planet's climate over time." |
3. The Dark Market for Data
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| Are you the victim of sexual assault? Do you have a sexually transmitted disease, AIDS, dementia, or Alzheimers? Were you ever accused of a crime? Are you impotent or depressed, or just exceptionally gullible? If so, you're probably on a list. |
4. Dr. Watson
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| The Watson Analytics cognitive computing platform is now helping doctors uncover the genetic markers for certain cancers, so they can formulate more effective individual treatments. |
5. Managing Schemas
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| Schemas will inevitably change. Gwen Shapira explores Apache Avro as an elegant solution. |
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6. The Amazon/Google Data Bellwether
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| Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem advises: look at what Amazon and Google are doing with data. It may be your future. |
7. Last Chance: Strata + Hadoop World Barcelona
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Strata + Hadoop World is coming to Barcelona 19-21 Nov. If you were planning to come, register now: Strata + Hadoop World frequently sells out, and you'll save 100€ over the on-site price by registering in advance.
Also a bit of news: The first Developer Certification for Apache Spark takes place at Strata + Hadoop World in Barcelona on Thursday, 20 November. Learn more about Spark certification.
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8. Collaborative Filtering at LinkedIn
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| This paper, on LinkedIn’s horizontal collaborative filtering infrastructure,provides insight on lessons learned about context and presentation of recommendation as well as interesting tidbits including: design has the largest ROI, data engineering is second, and algorithms last. (via Four Short Links.) |
9. Average Salaries for Data Developers
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| Here's an infographic on average data development salaries, most resume-enhancing languages, and most popular dashboards. |
10. Freebie of the Week
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 A free O’Reilly ebook, Fast Data and the New Enterprise Data Architecture, describes an imminent shift in real-time applications and the data architecture they require. Thanks to VoltDB for sponsoring this week's free download.
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