Heres an awesome app on Facebook for linking and downloading your LI contacts.
Its called Branchout- and is very user friendly interface (critical for social software)
Tag: facebook
Here comes Cassandra!
What is Cassandra? Why is this relevant to analytics?
It is the next generation Database that you want your analytics software to be compatible with. Also it is quite easy to learn. Did I mention that if you say “I know how to Hadoop/Big Data” on your resume, you just raised your market price by an extra 30 K$. I mean there is a big demand for analysts and statisticians who can think/slice data from a business perspective AND write that HADOOP/Big Data code.
How do I learn more?
http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasf2011
Whats in it for you?
Well, I shifted my poetry to https://poemsforkush.wordpress.com/
On Decisionstats.com This is what I love to write about! I find it cool.
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Cassandra SF 2011- Monday, July 11
It’s been almost a year since the first Apache Cassandra Summit in San Francisco. Once again we’ve reserved the beautiful Mission Bay Conference Center. Because the Cassandra community has grown so much in the last year, we’re taking the entire venue. This year’s event will not only include Cassandra, but also Brisk, Apache Hadoop, and more.
What’s in-store for this year’s conference?
We have two rooms set aside for presentations.This year we also have multiple rooms set aside for Birds of a Feather talks, committer meetups, and other small discussions.
We’ve sent out surveys to all the attendees of last year’s conference, as well as a few hundred other members of the community. Below are some of the topics people have requested so far.
If you have topics you’d like to see covered, or you would like to submit a presentation, send a note to lynnbender@datastax.com.
What else?
We’ll be providing lunch as well as continuous beverage service — so that you won’t have to take your mind outside the information windtunnel.
We’ll also be hosting a post event party. Details coming shortly.
For more information…
Submissions and suggestions: If you wish to propose a talk or presentation, or have a suggestion on a topic you’d like to see covered, send a note to Lynn Bender at lynnbender@datastax.com
Sponsorship opportunities: Contact Michael Weir at DataStax: mweir@datastax.com
Apache Cassandra, Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Hadoop, and Apache are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries, and are used with permission as of 2011. The Apache Software Foundation has no affiliation with and does not endorse, or review the materials provided at this event, which is managed by DataStax.
Welcome to Apache Cassandra
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, and is now developed by Apache committers and contributors from many companies.
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Overview
- ProvenCassandra is in use at Digg, Facebook,Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace, Cloudkick, Cisco, SimpleGeo, Ooyala, OpenX, and more companiesthat have large, active data sets. The largest production cluster has over 100 TB of data in over 150 machines.
- Fault TolerantData is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime.
- DecentralizedEvery node in the cluster is identical. There are no network bottlenecks. There are no single points of failure.
- You’re in ControlChoose between synchronous or asynchronous replication for each update. Highly available asynchronus operations are optimized with features like Hinted Handoffand Read Repair.
- Rich Data ModelAllows efficient use for many applications beyond simple key/value.
- ElasticRead and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications.
- DurableCassandra is suitable for applications that can’t afford to lose data, even when an entire data center goes down.
- Professionally SupportedCassandra support contracts and services are available from third partie
Related articles
- DataStax Rewires Hadoop with Apache Cassandra (datacenterknowledge.com)
Tableau Interactive "Viz" Contest
One more contest- open only for US though but the prizes are hmm okay. The catch is you have to use the software Tableau created not R or J or ggobi or ggplot or java Check out http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/biz-viz-contest/?=decisionstats
Tableau Interactive “Viz” Contest
AS FEATURED AT
Win a trip to Vegas and a chance for $2,000 & an iPad2
Are you a business, finance or real estate geek? This contest is for you! In cooperation with The Economist Ideas Economy conference, the Tableau Software Interactive “Viz” Contest will focus on business, finance and real estate data… Find some data then use Tableau Public to analyze and visualize it. That’s all it takes.
What you’ll win
A 3-day trip to Las Vegas and a chance to win $2,000 & an iPad2
The winner chosen by our judges will also take away a free roundtrip ticket to attend the2011 Tableau Customer Conference. This includes 3 night’s accommodations at theEncore and a chance to compete in the Iron Viz championship with the winners of two other contests. The winner of Iron Viz will take away a new iPad2, and $2,000.
Cash for the crowd favorite
After entering you’ll receive a custom bit.ly link to your viz. Tweet, Facebook and e-mail that link to everyone you can! Whoever gets the most clicks through their link will become our Crowd Favorite and receive a $250 debit card.
Recognition from The Economist Ideas Economy
Your winning entry will be announced live on stage at The Economist Ideas Economy conference, and Tableau will issue a national press release naming the winner.
Everyone who enters gets a t-shirt!
Everyone who enters will get a very cool Tableau t-shirt. The winner will also receive increased Tableau Public limits and a free copy of Tableau Desktop (a $1999 value)!
How it works
(Click on the steps to expand and get the details.)
Check the box to view all steps and details.
Contest Rules Summary
The following contest is open to legal residents of the United Sates only. You must publish your “viz” on your blog or website to be qualified. Submission form must be submitted by June 3, 2011. Winners will be notified by June 7, 2010. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Please read all the rules in their entirety before entering.
Read details at http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/biz-viz-contest/?=decisionstats
Related articles
- Visualizing marketing analytics with Tableau (customerthink.com)
Tableau Interactive “Viz” Contest
One more contest- open only for US though but the prizes are hmm okay. The catch is you have to use the software Tableau created not R or J or ggobi or ggplot or java Check out http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/biz-viz-contest/?=decisionstats
Tableau Interactive “Viz” Contest
AS FEATURED AT
Win a trip to Vegas and a chance for $2,000 & an iPad2
Are you a business, finance or real estate geek? This contest is for you! In cooperation with The Economist Ideas Economy conference, the Tableau Software Interactive “Viz” Contest will focus on business, finance and real estate data… Find some data then use Tableau Public to analyze and visualize it. That’s all it takes.
What you’ll win
A 3-day trip to Las Vegas and a chance to win $2,000 & an iPad2
The winner chosen by our judges will also take away a free roundtrip ticket to attend the2011 Tableau Customer Conference. This includes 3 night’s accommodations at theEncore and a chance to compete in the Iron Viz championship with the winners of two other contests. The winner of Iron Viz will take away a new iPad2, and $2,000.
Cash for the crowd favorite
After entering you’ll receive a custom bit.ly link to your viz. Tweet, Facebook and e-mail that link to everyone you can! Whoever gets the most clicks through their link will become our Crowd Favorite and receive a $250 debit card.
Recognition from The Economist Ideas Economy
Your winning entry will be announced live on stage at The Economist Ideas Economy conference, and Tableau will issue a national press release naming the winner.
Everyone who enters gets a t-shirt!
Everyone who enters will get a very cool Tableau t-shirt. The winner will also receive increased Tableau Public limits and a free copy of Tableau Desktop (a $1999 value)!
How it works
(Click on the steps to expand and get the details.)
Check the box to view all steps and details.
Contest Rules Summary
The following contest is open to legal residents of the United Sates only. You must publish your “viz” on your blog or website to be qualified. Submission form must be submitted by June 3, 2011. Winners will be notified by June 7, 2010. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Please read all the rules in their entirety before entering.
Read details at http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/biz-viz-contest/?=decisionstats
Related articles
- Visualizing marketing analytics with Tableau (customerthink.com)
Cognitive Biases exploited by Spammers and Phishers
Since they day you arrive on this planet, you are programmed into accepting reality as good and bad.
Beautiful people good. Ugly people not good.
Fellow countrymen good. Fellow earthling not so good.
Same religion is good. Different religion is awkward.
These cognitive biases are exploited in social media in the following manner-
1) Same Name Bias- You like people of the same name as you. or people who remind you of your brothers name. or uncles name.
All that information is already known. Esp true on Linkedin.
2) Same Orientation Bias- People tend to react better to photos considered attractive of opposite sex / opposite preference. Especially true on Twitter and Facebook.
3) Nationality Bias- Israeli Americans tend to respond better to Jewish looking phishers who claim to be from Israel but are not. Ditto for Indians- Arabs etc. E|sp true on Linkedin and Facebook.
You are positively biased to people of same country or of friendly nation states and will likely accept invites/friend/poke
4) Same organization/ alumni bias- People at end of phishing attack will have higher response rate if proxy identity claims familiarity with organizations or schools attended. Especially true on Facebook and Linkedin.
5) Same interests/movies/books bias- Your likely response rate is higher to someone who has seen your profile page on Facebook for interests, and checked the RSS stream of your tweets for stuff you like.
Bias is just maths. Period.
Related articles
- List Of Cognitive Biases (visayanatheists.wordpress.com)
Love Bytes- a modern Indian play
Review= Love Bytes
I was here in Taj Vivanta,Mumbai India, as a guest and I caught up with a lovely new age play called Love Bytes.
Directed and written by Divya Palat http://www.divyapalat.com , this play explores the emotional turbulences of the digiterati, the Facebook status changes, and the complete life cycle of the supply chain of love.
From teenage puppy love, to double income 1 kid, to geeky nerd afraid to talk to the beauteous girl in office,and the live in couple with no pressure to marry – this s when Harry met Sally plus Its Complicated all mashed together with anthemic rock songs between the acts.
I loved the humor and the satire though the second act did drag on my nerves with the puns on African American rappers, extinct parsis species, and mild homophobia in father son relationships. One solo act stood out for the funny words..
Welcome brave new world of Bollywood.
Or maybe I should say Bollyway-wood.
Do android hackers tweet about electric sheep?
Here is a very amusing site where bunch of hackers discuss black hat techniques to game social media- they meet in the MJ website. LOL
Thats actually the official MJ website. (also see my Poem on MJ at
https://decisionstats.com/2011/04/29/tribute-to-michael-jackson/
and https://decisionstats.com/2009/12/01/obama-and-mj-on-history/)
But back to the funny twitter gamers
http://www.michaeljackson.com/us/node/703109
