WikiDashboard: Visualizing Wikipedia Edits
Ed Chi, a senior research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), recently delivered a presentation at MIT about …
Google Paper on Parallel EM Algorithm using MapReduce
I hadn’t seen much discussion of this on the web, so I thought I would post the link to this…
MPI Cluster with Python and Amazon EC2 (part 2 of 3)
Today I posted a public AMI which can be used to run a small beowulf cluster on Amazon EC2 and…
Amazon Web Services Public Datasets
Amazon announced their Hosted Public Data Sets service today, and I expect it to be a game changer. Finding and…
Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering
Over the last few years, a large number of open courseware directories and video lecture aggregators have popped up on…
Some Datasets Available on the Web
The Datawrangling blog was put on the back burner last May while I focused on my startup. Now that I…
Python Montage Code for Displaying Arrays
This post will show how to replicate the Matlab montage function using Python. The Data Wrangling blog seems to be…
Amazon EC2 Considered Harmful
“The TruckNumber is the size of the smallest set of people in a project such that, if all of them…
The Colbert Bump in Amazon Data
Last month, I took a position as Director of Advanced Analytics at Juice. I’m primarily a machine learning guy, so…
PyCon 2008 ElasticWulf Slides
Here are the ElasticWulf slides from my talk. The video will eventually be posted to the PyCon site. Elasticwulf Pycon…