Microsoft is providing technology for tonight's Iowa caucus that should facilitate [the] accuracy and efficiency of the reporting process It also gives the company, which is seeing strong grow in its cloud services, to showcase its cloud and mobile offerings in a high stakes setting. … [Read more...]
Doug Cutting on the future of Hadoop
Data Informed have published interview with Doug Cutting on the future of Hadoop. He makes a number of observations. On MapReduce... MapReduce is on its way to being legacy. On important Hadoop developments... I think Kudu is very exciting; a new storage engine that offers a lot of low-latency, random-access capabilities that HDFS doesn't while still permitting the fast analytics that … [Read more...]
NFL players join the Internet of Things
The NFL is fitting players' shoulder pads with data sensors. This will allow the real-time collection of metrics such as position, speed and acceleration. In last year's Pro Bowl sensors were installed in footballs to measure the length of throws. Surprisingly, given "Deflategate", they have chosen not to expand this idea. In addition to being used for the "game stats" that are popular in the … [Read more...]
Data science with Microsoft
Jan Mulkens recently published an article on Microsoft's recent rush to enhance it's data science offering. And, as he illustrates, they have been very busy this year. He highlights a number of their flagship data science initiatives. Azure Machine Learning Power BI Cortana Analytics Suite Acquisition of Datazen & Revolution Analytics Integration of R in SQL Server Other significant data … [Read more...]
Twitter’s anomaly detection package for R
Twitter have an interest in detecting anomalies in their service. Anomalies could be down to user engagement, spamming or technical issues. Regardless of the reasons, it's something they want to know about when it happens. To aid detection of anomalies in their time series data they have developed, and open-sourced, an anomaly detection package for R. Their algorithm is based on the Generalized … [Read more...]