WANalytics: Analytics for a geo-distributed, data intensive world

February 3, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

WANalytics: analytics for a geo-distributed data intensive world - Vulimiri et al. 2015 ...data is born distributed; we only control data replication and distributed execution strategies. This is true for so many sources of data. Combine this with Dave McCrory's observation that 'Data has Gravity' (i.e. it attracts applications and other data processing workloads to ... Continue Reading

The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics

February 2, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics: Low latency scalable model management and serving with Velox - Crankshaw et al. 2015. Analytics at scale can be used to create statistical models for making predictions about the world, but once the data scientists and analysts have done their initial work and a model has been built and ... Continue Reading

Introducing CIDR’15 week on The Morning Paper

February 1, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

The data systems research community are a smart bunch, although it's not their research and papers I'm referring to here. Many conferences move around, but not the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). CIDR has found a rather nice venue "on the Pacific Ocean, just south of Monterey", and decided to stick there. Schedule ... Continue Reading

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Month: February 2015

WANalytics: Analytics for a geo-distributed, data intensive world

The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics

Introducing CIDR’15 week on The Morning Paper