Big data. It has certainly been a buzzword in recent years, but what is it really, and how are organizations leveraging open source tools to turn raw data into actionable…
Eva Tse will be speaking at this year's OSCON about her experiences at Netflix in her talk entitled The evolution of the big data platform at Netflix. I caught up with Eva to…
The United Nations has proactively researched and promoted open government data across the globe for close to five years now. The Open Data Institute maintains that open data…
Karma is a free, an open source data integration tool that makes it easy to convert data from a variety of formats into linked data. I recently attended a half-day workshop on…
When we first open sourced Spark, we aimed to provide a simple API for distributed data processing in general-purpose programming languages (Java, Python, Scala). Spark…
For anyone remotely interested in open source software within the earth and/or planetary sciences domain, the following article may prove somewhat an update of what is going…
