Toby Segaran

Beautiful Data

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

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In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video.With Beautiful Data, you will:* Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web* Learn how to visualize trends in urban crime, using maps and data mashups* Discover the challenges of designing a data processing system that works within the constraints of space travel* Learn how… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hammerbacher, Jeff

ISBN: 978-0-596-15711-1
EAN: 9780596157111
Produktnummer: 4464280
Verlag: O'Reilly UK Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 382 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B17.9 cm x D2.5 cm 614 g
Gewicht: 614

Über den Autor

Toby Segaran is the author of Programming Collective Intelligence, a very popular O'Reilly title. He was the founder of Incellico, a biotech software company later acquired by Genstruct. He currently holds the title of Data Magnate at Metaweb Technologies and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences.Jeff Hammerbacher is the Vice President of Products and Chief Scientist at Cloudera. Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the statistics and machine learning applications at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets. The team produced several academic papers and two open source projects: Hive, a system for offline analysis built above Hadoop, and Cassandra, a structured storage system on a P2P network. Before joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Jeff earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.