Santa Rosa, California
Technologist and entrepreneur
Areas of Expertise:
- Big data
- data science
- Google+
- cloud
- open standards
- open source
- Rails
- Clojure
- ClojureScript
- Dart
- web
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- training
- writing
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Edd blogs at:
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True data liberation with IFTTTT and Google Drive
September 04 2012
The web service IFTTT (If this, then that) accesses popular web applications via their APIs, and lets users create new actions based on changes. For instance, actions such as “upload photos to Flickr when I add them to my Dropbox … read moreWhy big data is big: the digital nervous system
August 29 2012
Where does all the data in “big data” come from? And why isn’t big data just a concern for companies such as Facebook and Google? The answer is that the web companies are the forerunners. Driven by social, mobile, and … read moreBuilding conference programs: it’s about the attendee
August 24 2012
I’ve chaired computer industry conferences for ten years now. First for IDEAlliance (XML Europe, XTech), and recently with O’Reilly Media (OSCON, Strata). Over the years I have tried to balance three factors as I select talks: proposal quality, important new … read moreNow available: "Planning for Big Data"
March 14 2012
"Planning for Big Data" is a new book that helps you understand what big data is, why it matters, and where to get started. read moreMarch 07 2012
Strata chair Edd Dumbill provides an overview of the most mature data markets (Infochimps, Factual, Windows Azure Data Marketplace, DataMarket), and contrasts their different approaches and facilities. read moreFebruary 22 2012
Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand: but it's comparatively early days. Strata conference chair Edd Dumbill explains the cloud landscape and compares the offerings of Amazon, Google and Microsoft. read moreFebruary 02 2012
Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume? read moreMicrosoft's plan for Hadoop and big data
January 25 2012
Strata conference chair Edd Dumbill takes a look at Microsoft's plans for big data. By embracing Hadoop, the company aims to keep Windows and Azure as a standards-friendly option for data developers. read moreBig data market survey: Hadoop solutions
January 19 2012
In this survey, Edd Dumbill explores the Hadoop-based big data solutions available on the market, contrasts the approaches of EMC Greenplum, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle and provides an overview of Hadoop distributions. read moreJanuary 11 2012
It's the hot trend in software right now, but what does big data mean, and how can you exploit it? Strata chair Edd Dumbill presents an introduction and orientation to the big data landscape. read moreFive big data predictions for 2012
December 14 2011
The coming year of big data will bring developments in streaming data frameworks and data marketplaces, along with a maturation in the roles and processes of data science. read moreOracle's Big Data Appliance: what it means
October 03 2011
Today, Oracle announced their Big Data Appliance. It couldn't be a plainer validation of what's important in big data right now, or where the battle for technology dominance lies. read moreOracle's Big Data Appliance: what it means
October 03 2011
Today, Oracle announced their Big Data Appliance. It couldn't be a plainer validation of what's important in big data right now, or where the battle for technology dominance lies. read moreGoogle+ is the social backbone
July 19 2011
Google+ is the rapidly growing seed of a web-wide social backbone, and the catalyst for the ultimate uniting of the social graph. read moreSeven Java projects that changed the world
July 07 2011
Reaching beyond mere adoption, these seven projects have had a profound effect on the Java world, software development in general, and even our daily lives. read moreA rough guide to JVM languages
July 07 2011
This overview of JVM-based programming compares the relative strengths of the major languages. read moreSeven reasons you should use Java again
July 07 2011
Sixteen years on, this ain't your father's Java. Here's seven reasons why Java is worth your time. read moreJune 14 2011
The big data and semantic web worlds seem to be disjunct. Yet big data is poised to light the fire beneath the long-held dreams of the semantic web, and the semantic web will enable data scientists to describe, organize and reason about their results. read moreFebruary 23 2011
If I talk about data marketplaces, you probably think of large resellers like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters. Or startups like InfoChimps. What you probably don't think of is that you yourself trade in data. read moreJanuary 19 2011
Strata's startup showcase is a great opportunity for data-oriented startups to get exposure, feedback and the chance to pitch on the main stage. But hurry because entries close this Friday (Jan. 21). read moreStrata Gems: Three key data trends for 2011
December 25 2010
To conclude our Strata Gems series, we take a look at the important drivers for the data world in 2011: data markets, real-time data processing, and developers. read moreStrata Gems: CouchDB in the browser
December 24 2010
The JSCouch project is a partial implementation of CouchDB in the browser, letting you experience CouchDB's storage and MapReduce queries without installing any software. read moreStrata Gems: Whirr makes Hadoop and Cassandra a snap
December 22 2010
The cloud makes clusters easy, but for rapid prototyping purposes, bringing up clusters still involves quite a bit of effort. The Whirr project makes cloud control simple. read moreStrata Gems: DIY personal sensing and automation
December 21 2010
Tomorrow's augmented reality is being built today on mobile devices. The Tasker app for Android puts the power of the phone's sensors and network into the hands of non-programmers. read moreStrata Gems: Turn MySQL into blazing fast NoSQL
December 20 2010
The HandlerSocket plugin for MySQL bypasses the query parser to deliver excellent NoSQL performance, rivaling that of memcache. read moreStrata gems: What your inbox knows
December 19 2010
One of the richest sources of data exhaust, email logs contain valuable information. When added to data from a traditional CRM, email analytics can provide a much fuller picture of your company's relationships and activity. read moreDecember 18 2010
Small data matters as much as big, and none more than data about ourselves. Fitness and health tracking is going wireless and personal. read moreStrata Gems: Clojure is a language for data
December 17 2010
Built for expressiveness and concurrency, Clojure is a natural fit for data work. It boasts excellent API support and strong support for use in the cloud. read moreStrata Gems: Who needs disks anyway?
December 16 2010
Today's databases are designed for the spinning platter of the hard disk. As SSDs begin to enter data centers, it's time for a database that takes advantage of the new technology. read moreStrata Gems: Kinect democratizes augmented reality
December 15 2010
Developers can now hack up augmented reality solutions with commonplace gaming consoles, accelerating innovation in virtual extensions to our daily lives. read moreStrata Gems: Manage clusters with Mesos
December 14 2010
As big data systems evolve rapidly, the Mesos project aims to solve architectural and management headaches. One to watch for 2011. read moreStrata Gems: Use GPUs to speed up calculation
December 13 2010
The attributes that make GPUs optimized for graphics can also be used for general computing. Over the last 3 years, GPU computing has moved to the mainstream. read moreStrata Gems: The emerging marketplace for social data
December 12 2010
If you want to analyze social media data in significant volumes, it can be inconvenient and costly to aggregate it yourself. Providers like Gnip are growing a market in social data. read moreDecember 11 2010
Snow in the UK is generally a source of delight. A simple idea to use Twitter as a way of gathering snow reports from around the country has proved remarkably popular. read moreStrata Gems: Usahidi enables crowdsourced journalism and intelligence
December 10 2010
Built for emergencies, Usahidi's mapping and social media monitoring tools also have commercial applications. Though open source, the tools are also available as for-pay hosted services. read moreStrata Gems: Make beautiful graphs of your Twitter network
December 09 2010
Using a bit of Python and the Gephi graph tool, exploring your own Twitter network is a great way to learn about analyzing networks: and the results definitely have a "wow" factor. read moreStrata Gems: Explore and visualize graphs with Gephi
December 08 2010
A Photoshop for data, Gephi is a powerful tool for exploring and presenting data as a graph. It's easy to get started with sample data sets, then import your own by generating files in a standard graph format. read moreStrata Gems: Five data blogs you should read
December 07 2010
From deep-diving startup founders to national newspapers, there's a rich vein of wisdom and information in blogs about data. Here's five to get your reading list started. read moreStrata Gems: The timeless utility of sed and awk
December 06 2010
Though over 30 years old, the command line utilties sed and awk are still go-to tools for working with data. read moreStrata Gems: Where to find data
December 05 2010
With the growth of both the open data movement and data marketplaces, there's now a wealth of public data that you can use in your analyses and applications. read moreStrata Gems: Quick starts for charts
December 04 2010
You know bar and pie charts can be ineffective, but where do you turn next? Here are some great starting points to make a start with more interesting and effective charts. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: OSCON 2011: Take-aways, Trends, and Highlights
August 11, 2011
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free What do you do once you've changed the world? You do it again. That's what the world's open source innovators, builders, and pioneers did as they gathered again at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland...
Webcast: People, Data and Dollars — A Preview of Strata NYC
August 31, 2011
Duration: Approximately 120 minutes. Cost: Free This September, O'Reilly's Strata Summit and Conference brings the Business of Data to New York. It's a five-day event on how ubiquitous, connecting information is changing the world around us. In ...
Webcast: Get the (Data) Vote Out
June 20, 2012
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes. Cost: Free After Eisenhower, you couldn't win an election without radio. After Kennedy, you couldn't win an election without TV. Obama showed what's possible with social media. But in 2012, it'...
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