For example did you know that the PageRank Patent is assigned to Stanford ( which is the reason they have more money than err. many Universities combined…not a great football program though)
Here is an excellent website allows you to Live Stream your conference for free. Its called U Stream and quite catchingly it’s motto is “You are On”
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If you thought tweeting wastes too much time, here is the app for you
Tweet directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Manage multiple Twitter accounts.
View notifications for new tweets received.
Use columns to create your personal dashboard.
Simply sync to set-up
Continuously updates between your desktop and iPhone.
Create Groups to easily follow all your friends.
Follow topics in real-time with saved searches.
Reply to tweets and send direct messages.
Easily re-tweet messages.
Share photos with Twitpic and YFrog.
Shorten links with your favourite URL shortener.
Follow and un-follow people.
Shake your iPhone to refresh columns.
5) Pandora- Music for Nothing that means free music streaming on 3G.
Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it
Great Stuff on SAP’s University Network I did exchange emails before turning them over to the Departmental guys-they are really serious on expanding the pool of analysts
more analytics and BI companies should do this- and buzz me at www.twitter.com/decisionstats if you like to do it with U Tenn students- we currently are working on the the world’s biggest super computer at the nearby Oakridge National Lab.
SAS and Aster Data to Present “Advanced Analytics on Multi-Terabyte Datasets” at M2009 in Las Vegas – Oct. 26-27
Learn how the tight coupling of SQL and MapReduce provided by Aster Data creates new ‘big data’ analytics opportunities when combined with SAS. Aster Data will exhibit throughout the event.
And also a nice webcast by Curt Monash on the same Big Data topic-
Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series, Session 1
“Big Data Reality: The Role of MapReduce in Big Data Management and Analysis”- Oct. 15 Industry analyst Curt Monash explains the basics of MapReduce, key uses cases, and which industries and applications are heavily using MapReduce. Topics include recommendations for integrating MapReduce in an enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing environment.
A Plan for Large Scale Data Analytics: How to Utilize Aster nCluster and Hadoop in a Symbiotic
Relationship to Support Processing in Excess of 100 Billion Rows Per Month
– Michael Brown and Will Duckworth (EVP, Software Engineering, comScore, Inc. and Director, Software Engineering, comScore, Inc.)
This talked of the special needs of Com Score in handling big data and why Map Reduce and Hadoop seem to be the cost effective solutions for big big data while RDBMS seems stuck in the middle of middle data. Broadly informative on the statistical challenges of the future given the explosion of data as well.
Making Sense of Hadoop – Its Fit With Data Warehouses – Colin White (President and Founder of BI Research)
Colin brought a nice perspective on the open source Hadoop vis a vis the Properietary packages and the traditional DBMS. His perspective on the solution is no software is perfect for all needs while all softwares that sell have their own good points while the converging solution could be a heterogeneous solution of the above.
MapReduce Inside a Database System – When and How Case Studies from ShareThis, Specific Media, and Other – Tasso Argyros(Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Aster Data)
This was a more detailed look at the Big Product Launch ( the Hadoop Connector) by Tasso and an interesting look at time series analysis using nPath rather than SQL . Interesting given the ongoing convergence analytics and business intelligence.
Also Tasso lived up to his presenting charm with an excellent pitch on nPath (as his interview said ).
Large-Scale Analytics at LinkedIn – Jonathan Goldman (Former Principal Scientist at LinkedIn)
This was nice given Jonathan’s perscpective ( he has Phd In Physics) and now does consulting for LinkedIn while maintaining his interests in education- the special needs for social media websites, designing experiments on the fly with huge real time datasets as well as some interesting visualizations (like India and America have the second biggest cross country Li connections after USA- UK. Apparently Linkedin ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211231478 ) does not sound so good when translated in Chinese ( AT Dinner I learnt from a fellow Chinese student that China censors Facebook – sigh!).
Networking Mixer: Beer, wine, hot hors d’oeuvres
I got interviewed ( AFTER) I had mixed some Beer and Wine for myself. The Video interview which was the first video interview I have given ( You know- I have taken SOME interviews by Email and plan to do some more while in Vegas for the Data Mining 2009 with SAS http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2227381262)
They are still editing that interview 😉
—That was all – you need to send me a Facebook invite to see the rest of the NY trip or better still just join the Facebook page of Decision Stats at
After two weeks I hope to have some more coverage on Data Mining 2009 while at the same time enjoying my much needed Fall Break- Life at University at Tennessee is looking up ( since we beat Georgia 45-19 🙂 )
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