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Strata Week: Shop ’til you drop
Need a break from the holiday madness? You’re not alone. Check out these items of interest from the land of data and see why even the big consumers face tough choices. Does this place accept returns?...
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Visualization of the Week: A map of regional movie tastes
Netflix knows a lot about our movie tastes, as the company can track what we rent via DVDs or watch via streaming video, how we rent and how we rate videos. Some of that data about our viewing and...
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Strata Week: Add structured data, lose local flavor?
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week: A possible downside to Wikidata Screenshot from the Wikidata Data Model page. The Wikimedia Foundation — the good folks behind...
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Strata Week: Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows
Windows gets Hadoop, Intel launches Hadoop distribution Hortonworks released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows this week. In the press release, the company highlights the...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 December 2011
Challenges in Teaching Biology — everything that Alison says about teaching biology is true of teaching computer science. Read, learn, evolve. First Open Source Netflix Projects Released — Curator...
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What publishers can learn from Netflix's problems
In a wide-ranging interview, Tim Carmody (@tcarmody), a writer for Wired.com, Snarkmarket, The Idler, et al., looked at the lessons publishers and others can take from Netflix’ recent troubles, and he...
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Top Stories: December 5-9, 2011
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. The end of socialMike Loukides: “If you want to tell me what you listen to, I care. But if sharing is nothing more than a...
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What happens when an old law is updated for the digital age?
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation that will, if it becomes law, make it easier for companies and users to share video viewing habits. The current law, adopted in 1988 as the...
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toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up...
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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex (MIT) — brilliant phrase, sound analysis. Stupid Stupid xBox — The hardcore/soft-tv transition and any lead they feel they have is simply not defensible by...
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Inside Netflix’s HR (HBR) — Which idea in the culture deck was the hardest sell with employees? “Adequate performance gets a generous severance package.” It’s a pretty blunt statement of our hunger...
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Commotion — open source mesh networks. WriteLaTeX — online collaborative LaTeX editor. No, really. This exists. In 2014. Distributed Systems — free book for download, goal is to bring together the...
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Building a business that combines human experts and data science
Subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data and data science. In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show, I spoke with Eric Colson, chief...
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