Tag: Data and analytics
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How to build a mini supercomputer for under $100
Posted on April 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Daniel Oberhaus in which he offers a quick inside how Wei Lin built a scalable computing cluster comprised of $7 chips. Github user Wei Lin has demonstrated, it's possible to make a home made computing cluster that doesn't break the bank.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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TensorFlow on Mobile: TensorFlow Lite introduction
Posted on April 17, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Sagar Sharma short introduction to TensorFlow on mobile. TensorFlow Lite is a lightweight and a next step from TensorFlow Mobile. You can do almost all the things that you do on TensorFlow mobile but much faster.
Tags frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics product-and-design
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Everything you need to know about tree data structures
Posted on April 11, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Article by author TK focusing on data tree structures. If you are pursuing a Computer Science degree, you have to take a class on data structure. You will learn about hash tables, linked lists, queues, and stacks. Those data structures are called "linear" data structures because they all have a logical start and a logical end. However, trees and graphs don't store data linear. Both data structures store data in a specific way.
Tags software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics
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GraphQL introduction at the REST-aurant
Posted on February 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Gregor intro into GraphQL. The article is accompanied with video presentation. If you ever wondered what GraphQL can do for you and you know a bit of JavaScript, this is an excellent post explaining basic concepts of GraphQL.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Event-driven architectures & AsyncAPI
Posted on February 6, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Fran Mendez article about event-driven architecture. Engineers, often forget that APIs are not just HTTP APIs. API stands for "Application Programming Interface". It's exactly the "Interface" where author wants to focus.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Apache Kafka is not for event sourcing
Posted on February 1, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jesper Hammarbäck article in which he argues why Kafka is not the best tool for event sourcing. Kafka is a great tool for delivering messages between producers and consumers and the optional topic durability allows you to store your messages permanently. Forever if you'd like.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Making sentiment analysis easy with Scikit-learn
Posted on January 29, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Lesley Cordero article about sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis uses computational tools to determine the emotional tone behind words. Python has a bunch of handy libraries for statistics and machine learning so in this post we'll use Scikit-learn to learn how to add sentiment analysis to our applications.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Storing data in DNA
Posted on January 27, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
MIT technology review article about storing data in DNA and how this can be a lot easier than getting it back out. Humanity is creating information at an unprecedented rate—some 16 zettabytes every year (a zettabyte is one billion terabytes). Last year, the research group IDC calculated that we'll be producing over 160 zettabytes every year by 2025.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Neural networks, manifolds, and topology
Posted on January 22, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Christopher Olah older article about excitement and interest in deep neural networks because they've achieved breakthrough results in areas such as computer vision.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Sizing up revenue in application container market
Posted on January 11, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jay Lyman and Greg Zwakman are authors of this interesting study in which they project and estimate container software market. This is update from previous year in which over 150+ of vendors took a part.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Why AWS DynamoDB is not for everyone
Posted on January 10, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Cloud architect Forrest Brazeal wrote intriguing article in which he considers shortcomings and advantages of DynamoDB. He interviewed a number of engineers and developers about their experiences with the database service. As great as DynamoDB is -- and as rousing as its success stories are -- it has also left plenty of failed implementations in its wake.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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Supercharging visualization with Apache Arrow
Posted on January 7, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article on KDnuggets™ about how Apache Arrow provides a new way to exchange and visualize data at unprecedented speed and scale. Despite the fact that interactive visualization of large data sets on the web has traditionally been impractical.
Tags data-and-analytics