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Being the big data geek I am, I'm pretty excited that Google has integrated BigQuery with Google Apps Script and Google Spreadsheets.
This means you can take power of BigQuery for storing and querying of very large data sets and combine them using Google Apps Scripts with any of your Google Spreadsheets.
With a simple query Google...
Quora has exposed a JSON-based data API that allows users to access data about a currently logged-in user.
To request particular fields about the currently logged-in user, you can add fields to a query string and append to http://api.quora.com/api/logged_in_user.
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I am intrigued of any patterns or art you can extract from Big Data. I have been fascinated by the art of fractal mathematics since my 7th grade social studies teacher introduced me to them in 1984. Her boyfriend w...
Course Description: Data mining is used to discover patterns and relationships in data. Emphasis is on large complex data sets such as those in very large databases or through web mining. Topics: decision trees, neural networks, association rules, clustering, case based methods, and data visualization. The following chapters from the textbook will be covere...
![Cloud Computing: Public vs Private [Infographic]](http://wikibon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/public-private-970.png)
There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party.
In a Private Cloud, the infrastructure policies are governed by a single organization where workloads and data can be moved to and from internal and external data centers. Private Clouds provide an organization a single point of control for security, manageability, p...
Mining of Massive Data Sets is a book evolved from material developed over several years by Anand Raja- raman and Jeff Ullman for a one-quarter course at Stanford. The course titled Web Mining, was designed as an advanced graduate course, although it has become accessible and interesting to advanced undergraduates.
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Twitter has a business center setup to help people make the most of Twitter for their business.
You can find tools, starting with the basis:
What is Twitter?
Twitter Glossary
I thought the visualization of the search and news traffic for Application Programming Interface (API) at Google Trends was interesting enough to share.
You have to ask yourself: What 2011 will look like for
As a programmer I am constantly looking for new ways to manage my code libraries and make myself more efficient.
I need to be able to store small and large snippets of code in about 3-5 different languages. I need to be able to categorize, name them and post code as plain text.
I have migrated from Visual Studio to Adobe Dreamweaver (i know, don't even say it) to Aptana as my primary IDE in the last...
![Security of My Personal Identity [Gawker]](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/kinlane/gawker_logo.jpg){kind=logo}
I'm watching the scene unfold with Gawker media, and thinking about the security of my personal identity. The security of our personal online identities has ALWAYS been importa...
Amazon Web Services increased the size limit for objects you can store on Amazon S3 from 1TB to 5TB today.
In order to upload larger objects they require you to use the new Multipart Uplo...
I am spending a couple hours today going through popular app marketplaces looking for document management and collaboration applications. I'm also comparing each marketplace as browse through them..
I'm looking through four primary marketplaces:
Google Apps Marketplace
Google finally released the long awaited Google Cloud Print with Chrome. You will need to download the latest version of Chrome to take advantage of Cloud Print.
After you connect your printer with the Google Cloud you will be able to p...
Who is the number one user of your web site? Humans or other computers?
According to Google Webmaster Tools, my top searches were for the following words:
Wave - 22,200 search for this word with 140 actual clicks to visit my site. With an average position of #14 @ Google.
Coffee - 2,400 searches for this word with 16 actual clicks to visit my site With an average position of #330 @ Google.
Who is the number #1 user of my web site or...
Amazon added a DNS service to their stack of web services today The service is called Amazon Route 53.
Now you can host your domains DNS with Amazon for $1.00 / month per zone and .50 cents per million queries.
You can use the Route 53 DNS for your Amazon infrastructure as well manage external resources as w...
OpenID has become the standard for web site login, taking the authentication off your site and centralizing it using OpenID enabled accounts they use every day.
OpenID makes it easier for users to login to your web site. Local account registration and ...
It is time to curate my Google Reader subscriptions again. I try to keep my daily blog reading as efficient as possible. To do this I change up my Google Reader in three different ways:
Google Reader Social Network - I follow people on Google Reader based upon their profile and how much they will contribute to my daily reading. I...
A project I'm moving off the back-burner and into the public domain is a project I called Tech Job Analysis.
I have been pulling all the job postings in the three technical categories from Craigslist for all the North American and Eur...
During my 20 years in the technology industry and many failed entrepreneurial endeavors I have gained some wisdom around managing my ideas and evolving them into projects.
Most of my startups and side-projects have gone nowhere. Have they failed? I think that is a matter of opinion. If you ask my ex-wife...she will say yes.
I say no. They were all learning experiences and evolved myself and my knowledge forward.
I have developed a method for recording my ideas using
