LinkedIn's chief scientist talks big data, analytics

April 29, 2009

LinkedIn's chief scientist talks big data, analytics

Ben Lorica over at O'Reilly Radar interviews LinkedIn's chief scientist DJ Patel. His view: with the wealth of open-source and commodity scalable data analysis platforms now available, we're set to see an explosion in the application of statistical and data mining methods applied to new data sets. Can't say I disagree. Sadly no mention of R, but with Google and Facebook using R can LinkedIn be far behind?

O'Reilly Radar: How big data impacts analytics

Posted by David Smith at 14:16 in high-performance computing, predictive analytics | Permalink

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April 29, 2009