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Big Data – 4V’s + Verification
IBM have released an Infographic on the “Four V’s of Big Data” which covers: Volume – Scale of Data Variety – Different forms of Data Velocity – Analysis of Streaming Data Veracity – Uncertainty of Data There should be another V for “Verification” which covers the questions you ask of the data in order to…
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Faster Smaller Raspberry Pi Cluster
Following on from my blog “Race to the largest Raspberry Pi Cluster“, James J. Guthrie has built a 3 node cluster out of Raspberry Pi 2’s using 3 nodes, out performing the 64 node cluster. The Iridis Pi has a peak CPU performance benchmark was around 1 GIGAFLOPS (floating point operations per second) The cluster presented…
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R {swirls} – Learning R by doing
A swirl is an interactive way of learning R by installing a package called {swirl} into R and then installing a course. I have used swirls in the Data Science Courses on Coursera and found them a useful way of learning and testing your knowledge. swirl is installed as a package into R using the following command…
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IoT Operating Systems
A recent paper from the Cornell University has been published that covers a “Survey of Operating Systems for the IoT Environment“. (IoT = Internet of Things). It looks at the Operating Systems produced for the chipsets used in IoT sensors, RFID and devices. The paper lists the following Operating Systems and provides an overview of their…
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Email Overload
Having just had a few days off I have come back to the usual full mailbox and a quota that’s blown so need to clear items out before I can send anything. This is a very common place occurrence for people now, but how do we actually behave with and use email? A recent study “Evolution…
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Do you know Big Data?
Whilst looking into some suitable questions to ask about Big Data, I can across an excellent poster titled “Do you know Big Data?” produced by Altamira. The poster covers a set of questions that help you question Big Data and a Big Data project. What is Big Data? What types of Big Data are there? How…
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Microsoft e-Books on MVA
Microsoft have added a couple of new titles to their collection of e-books on MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) this month. These titles add to a good collection of information on Microsoft products. There are lots of other titles available and it is worth checking out the collection. Microsoft System Center Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined Storage…
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Open Source, Open Human, Open Data, Open Sesame!
Open Source is a term that is now common place meaning access to the inner workings of a thing to allow a wider community of people to help develop and take it forward. A good example of this is in software. The Internet is full of Open Source Software projects that people are developing and…
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16 Ordnance Survey tools – Open Maps
The Ordnance Survey (OS) have released some more tools as part of their Open Mapping products which are free to use. This takes the products up to 16 available for the UK geographical areas The new products are: OS Open Map Local OS Open Rivers OS Open Road The opportunities for using the data with…
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