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Comment on DataWrangler by Strata 2011 | My Blog

Strata 2011 | My Blog — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:02:41 +0000

[...] and Deep Approach to Scalable Analytics – the hotness of this talk seemed related more to the DataWrangler tool (for cleansing data) than the MAD library (scalable analytics engine running inside Postgres) [...]

Comment on Raft of papers #1: MAD Skills by “Magnetic, Agile, Deep” (MAD) approach to data « BI Monitor

“Magnetic, Agile, Deep” (MAD) approach to data « BI Monitor — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:50:47 +0000

[...] http://databeta.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/mad-skills/ [...]

Comment on Raft of papers #1: MAD Skills by The End of the Data Warehouse « BI Monitor

The End of the Data Warehouse « BI Monitor — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:33:35 +0000

[...] When I ran product at Greenplum, we understood this reality. Working with brilliant folks like Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley) and Brian Dolan (then at Fox Interactive), the team developed practices to navigate around the outmoded approaches of the past. Joe coined the name ‘MAD Skills’ (Magnetic, Agile and Deep). [...]

Comment on Announcing Trifacta by Robert Hodges

Robert Hodges — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:58:38 +0000

Hi Joe, Trifacta sounds interesting and useful. I look forward to seeing the software soon. Good luck!

Comment on Announcing Trifacta by Florian Waas

Florian Waas — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:17:24 +0000

That’s great news — congratulations, Joe! Best of luck with the new endeavor!

Comment on Bill Marczak’s work on Bahraini citizen surveillance by Bahrain

Bahrain — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:35:36 +0000

great work….congrats…

Comment on An open letter to Matt by Kanishka

Kanishka — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:18:54 +0000

Just to be clear, im a nobody. Just found the discussion interesting. I will simply point out a perhaps ‘ancient’ social system that supports both the points of view. This system suggests that there are 4 social goals of humans and each with its own “currency”/value – (1) seeking knowledge/experience of the real or platonic world (2) seeking power (my way is the right way) (3) seeking wealth, material things, money etc (4) offering services to people. HIstorically it appears that each step leads to higher pleasure (and leads to less regret and thus more “rational” in the long term). Research will explore territory barely anyone had the courage to think about before. Entrepreneurs can cash in on it and do “real world stuff” (as they define real). In other words, both these points of view are completely valid, and all they do is reveal the psychology of the bloggers, than a somewhat objective description of “reality”. btw, im from india and this so-called-social-system is the “caste” system fwiw. Almost every activity has a social impact — it is what one likes doing/derives pleasure out of.

Comment on The CALM Conjecture: Reasoning about Consistency by Jazoon, Keynote de Jonas Bonér | Blog Xebia France

Jazoon, Keynote de Jonas Bonér | Blog Xebia France — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:38:33 +0000

[...] la complexité, le réseau et vive l’asynchronisme.Jonas souhaite attirer notre attention sur « The CALM Conjecture » sans plus de détail si ce n’est que la donnée temps n’est plus prise en compte.Go BIG [...]

Comment on An open letter to Matt by jmh

jmh — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:41:20 +0000

Excellent point. And the industry is tangibly happy that we provide that service — students with PhDs in Computer Science are in *very* high demand and companies pay them accordingly.

Comment on An open letter to Matt by Dave Andersen

Dave Andersen — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:16:51 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Joe. I think you’re spot-on.

But I’ll point out one additional word I haven’t seen much in either post: Education. Those millions of dollars also went towards educating future researchers, some of whom will make future breakthroughs, found future startups, rewrite Google’s indexing system, and so on. The cost of a graduate student through 5 years of a Ph.D. program is, plus or minus, $350,000. Now, it’s nice when that money produces {good breakthroughs + a highly trained researcher}, but there’s significant value alone to the human product that comes out in the end as well.