Print Jobs just got easier- especially if you prefer one printer, use Google Chrome, and can take 2 minutes to set up your printer to print from anywhere in the world through the internet.
It’s called Google Cloud Print– and it makes my life a lot easier when I travel and need to give to printer at home some documents to print rather than rely on external printers. See screenshots below and check out http://www.google.com/cloudprint/ for more
Here is an interesting website by SAS.com – it showcases lots of business analytics content more from a conceptual rather than a tool based perspective- have a glance yourself.
Here is a celebrated graphic from an American journalist using U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is a good example of using time as a dimension for animation- and heat maps for geography enabled visualizations.
————————–According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed — that’s including those involuntarily working part time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. “The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,” as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 — approximately one year before the start of the recession — to the most recent unemployment data available today. Original link: http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html. For more information, email latoya.egwuekwe@yahoo.com
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31 million unemployed- Does a US corporation seriously think that it can build everything OUTSIDE America and SELL INSIDE America. or who think it is okay intellectual property continues to be stolen as long as labor is cheap.
Shame on you if you outsourced your neighbour’s jobs- or would rather hire in a geography where they steal your intellectual property.
This Christmastime – May the Ghost of the Unemployed Family Christmases visit you in your sleep instead.
Here are some jobs from Vincent Granville, founder Analyticbridge. Please contact him directly- I just thought the Season of Joy should have better jobs than currently.
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Several job ads recently posted on DataShaping / AnalyticBridge, across United Sates and in Europe. Use the DataShaping search box to find more opportunities.
some analytical positions from Analytical Searches.com
Image via Wikipedia
Relocation is provided for all except NY. H1 transfers are sponsored for the Analytical Manager/Senior Manager and Business Reporting Analyst only. ————————————————————————–
Analytical Manager and Senior Manager/To $160K
Analytics Manager/CA or IL/To $120K
Bank Analytics Manager/IL/To $120K
Business Reporting Analyst/NY/To $90K
Credit Card Risk Analyst/ Illinois/To $95K
Director Analytics/San Diego/To $170K
Director, Operations Strategy and Analytics/San Diego/To $150K
Lead Risk Analyst/CA & TX/To $150K
Manager Modeling & Analytics/CT/To $120K
Marketing Analytics/NY/To$85K
Principal Product Manager, Vertical Markets/$150K/WA
Research Statistician/OH/To $110K
Senior Consultant Marketing Analytics/NY/To $120K
Senior Director Strategic Consulting/To $130K
Senior Manager Decision Science/CA/To $160K
Senior Marketing / Web Analyst /NY/To $100K
Senior Statistician/Modeling Position/VA/$80K
Statistical Director/ Boston or Dallas/To $145K
Statistical Manager/Boston/To $95K
Contact Details- Email Use The Referral Code- Santa Clause
Here is an interview with James Dixon the founder of Pentaho, self confessed Chief Geek and CTO. Pentaho has been growing very rapidly and it makes open source Business Intelligence solutions- basically the biggest chunk of enterprise software market currently.
Ajay- How would you describe Pentaho as a BI product for someone who is completely used to traditional BI vendors (read non open source). Do the Oracle lawsuits over Java bother you from a business perspective?
The Oracle/Java issue does not bother me much. There are a lot of software companies dependent on Java. If Oracle abandons Java a lot resources will suddenly focus on OpenJDK. It would be good for OpenJDK and might be the best thing for Java in the long term.
Ajay- What parts of Pentaho’s technology do you personally like the best as having an advantage over other similar proprietary packages.
Describe the latest Pentaho for Hadoop offering and Hadoop/HIVE ‘s advantage over say Map Reduce and SQL.
James- The coolest thing is that everything is pluggable:
* ETL: New data transformation steps can be added. New orchestration controls (job entries) can be added. New perspectives can be added to the design UI. New data sources and destinations can be added.
* Reporting: New content types and report objects can be added. New data sources can be added.
* BI Server: Every factory, engine, and layer can be extended or swapped out via configuration. BI components can be added. New visualizations can be added.
This means it is very easy for Pentaho, partners, customers, and community member to extend our software to do new things.
In addition every engine and component can be fully embedded into a desktop or web-based application. I made a youtube video about our philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyR-In5nKE
Our Hadoop offerings allow ETL developers to work in a familiar graphical design environment, instead of having to code MapReduce jobs in Java or Python.
90% of the Hadoop use cases we hear about are transformation/reporting/analysis of structured/semi-structured data, so an ETL tool is perfect for these situations.
Using Pentaho Data Integration reduces implementation and maintenance costs significantly. The fact that our ETL engine is Java and is embeddable means that we can deploy the engine to the Hadoop data nodes and transform the data within the nodes.
Ajay- Do you think the combination of recession, outsourcing,cost cutting, and unemployment are a suitable environment for companies to cut technology costs by going out of their usual vendor lists and try open source for a change /test projects.
Jamie- Absolutely. Pentaho grew (downloads, installations, revenue) throughout the recession. We are on target to do 250% of what we did last year, while the established vendors are flat in terms of new license revenue.
Ajay- How would you compare the user interface of reports using Pentaho versus other reporting software. Please feel free to be as specific.
James- We have all of the everyday, standard reporting features covered.
Over the years the old tools, like Crystal Reports, have become bloated and complicated.
We don’t aim to have 100% of their features, because we’d end us just as complicated.
The 80:20 rule applies here. 80% of the time people only use 20% of their features.
We aim for 80% feature parity, which should cover 95-99% of typical use cases.
Ajay- Could you describe the Pentaho integration with R as well as your relationship with Weka. Jaspersoft already has a partnership with Revolution Analytics for RevoDeployR (R on a web server)-
Any R plans for Pentaho as well?
James- The feature set of R and Weka overlap to a small extent – both of them include basic statistical functions. Weka is focused on predictive models and machine learning, whereas R is focused on a full suite of statistical models. The creator and main Weka developer is a Pentaho employee. We have integrated R into our ETL tool. (makes me happy 🙂 )
(probably not a good time to ask if SAS integration is done as well for a big chunk of legacy base SAS/ WPS users)
About-
As “Chief Geek” (CTO) at Pentaho, James Dixon is responsible for Pentaho’s architecture and technology roadmap. James has over 15 years of professional experience in software architecture, development and systems consulting. Prior to Pentaho, James held key technical roles at AppSource Corporation (acquired by Arbor Software which later merged into Hyperion Solutions) and Keyola (acquired by Lawson Software). Earlier in his career, James was a technology consultant working with large and small firms to deliver the benefits of innovative technology in real-world environments.
Ok I promised a weekly cartoon on Friday but it’s Saturday. Last week we spoofed Larry Ellison , Jim Goodnight and Bill Gates– people who created billions of taxes for the economy but would be regarded as evil by some open source guys- though they may have created more jobs for more families than the whole Federal Reserve Bank did in 2008-10. Jobs are necessary for families. Period.
In Part 2- we see Open Source is actually older than Stallman (yes people are older than Stallman) – in fact open source has been around for far more time than even
Jim Goodnight’s current age- which can be revealed by using proc goodnight options=all.
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