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A World About to Change… - Blog archives
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the monthly archives for September 2011. Monthly Archives September 2011. Epistemological Modesty and Big Data. Principles of Large Scale Systems.
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A World About to Change… - business intelligence
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of business intelligence. Category Archives: business intelligence. I’ve been using Hadoop and Hive for the last six months and have been pretty impressed with how well it works. To state the obvious, if you can correctly formulate your query, nothing beats this approach. It’s been very useful for doing cohort analysis and large scale lifetime value computations on a relatively high traffic [.]. SaaS = ASP = out of business. As mor...
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A World About to Change… - Epistemological Modesty and Big Data
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the author archives of vinaysethmohta. Epistemological Modesty and Big Data. I am currently “reading” (listening to the audiobook actually) David Brooks’ Social Animal. First of, if you care about understanding human behavior in any realm, it is a fantastic read. I have always enjoyed Brooks’ columns at the NYT. His writing in this book is just as engaging and thought-provoking. I listened to a segment [.]. Small businesses and BI. Often, when I’m...
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A World About to Change…. Google Chrome and domain name squatting. For the longest time, I have been particularly irritated about domain name squatters. Talked about the associated issues, so I won’t rehash). Given that users who are not tech savvy often type search queries into the URL bar, I always wondered what the value was of the URL bar. Clearly, their intention was not to go to the specific URL (. My follow-up question has been – why not get rid of the URL bar and only provide a search bar? I find...
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A World About to Change… - About
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A World About to Change…. I am (in no particular order) an entrepreneur, a hacker, a product manager, a husband, a father, a former Cambridge. Resident, a KAYAK. Alum, a GHDonline. Alum, an Endeca. Alum, a MathWorks. Alum, and an MIT. Alum, and many other things as well. Currently, I’m the CTO at Kyruus. My latest foray with Kyruus is in healthcare. Our goal is to apply data, analytics, and technology to improve the efficiency of our healthcare system. Other places that there is information about me:.
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A World About to Change… - UI
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of UI. Is running a company easier than picking a cereal? NPR’s Fresh Air interviewed Jonah Lehrer today who has a new book out about how humans make decisions. A couple of topics dominated the interview: An overload of choices make decision-making much more difficult since our pre-frontal cortex can only handle a small number of choices at a time (somewhere between 5 and 12) Several [.]. Google Chrome and domain name squatting.
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A World About to Change… - data transformation
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of data transformation. Category Archives: data transformation. I’ve been using Hadoop and Hive for the last six months and have been pretty impressed with how well it works. To state the obvious, if you can correctly formulate your query, nothing beats this approach. It’s been very useful for doing cohort analysis and large scale lifetime value computations on a relatively high traffic [.]. Principles of Large Scale Systems.
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A World About to Change… - enterpreneurship
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of enterpreneurship. When I was working on a travel-related start-up idea last year, I had a call with a senior executive from a major web travel company. What she said really surprised me – that the majority of America still decides on where to go based on the following technique: when they see a compelling destination in [.]. SaaS = ASP = out of business. Firefox-based enterprise support business. A few weeks back, I read somethi...
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A World About to Change… - good reading
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of good reading. Category Archives: good reading. Is running a company easier than picking a cereal? New Manning-Schutze book (co-authored with P. Raghavan). Principles of Large Scale Systems.
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A World About to Change…. You are currently viewing the category archives of Uncategorized. Epistemological Modesty and Big Data. I am currently “reading” (listening to the audiobook actually) David Brooks’ Social Animal. First of, if you care about understanding human behavior in any realm, it is a fantastic read. I have always enjoyed Brooks’ columns at the NYT. His writing in this book is just as engaging and thought-provoking. I listened to a segment [.]. Small businesses and BI. Often, when I’...