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Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.
Or when Google announced the new chrome cast and music streaming device?
Both were at the top on their respective days and discussed ad nauseam in the comments.
What we like about Apache Spark is that it can take any source and provide the same very fast and programmatic (code reuse!) interface for analysis. Think JSON data dumps from MixPanel, SQL databases, some Excel spreadsheet someone threw together etc.
Apache Zeppelin is a little bit limited in the visualization that comes out of the box, but the benefits of having a shared data language across the company is just such a huge plus. Also, super easy to add data visualization options and hopefully companies will start to contribute these back to the project.
Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.
I don't think you understand re:invent. This happens every year.
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Very true. Even with smaller companies, data sets like events inside an app are too much for Excel. Ever since I picked up R, I haven't touched Excel.
Hey, what's the difference between R and a library for Haskell (or even Python)? It's interesting that a language that is limited to a particular use (statistical analysis) has taken off so much instead of a library for a general purpose language.
People love saying that BI/Data Science is 80% cleaning data (which may or may not be true), but I've found R to be the best for cleaning up 100k+ rows at a time.
Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.
Edit: we buried the "preview" stories, though. That's too much when there are already several actual launches on the front page.
I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
Amazon has shipped a lot, but I think the new Microsoft has a bigger impact. Off the top of my head: open-sourcing .NET, SSH to Windows, Surface product line, Hololens development, Windows 10 (hit a few bumps, but free is HUGE), cross-platform software push, stronger open-source commitment...
I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
> Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. As long as you're not one of his employees, sure. If I had a choice between working for Bezos or working for Joel Spolsky at half the pay, it wouldn't even be close. Of course, in real life, Fog Creek probably pays more anyways.
Amazon employees are pushed hard, and that's their key to shipping innovation.
Look at Googles cuddle farm - Lots of innovation that rarely ships and no risk taking.
How about Apple - Constrained innovation, low risk, Once a year shipping.
And there's a hundred other CEOs and companies that just don't come close. From an investor standpoint, Bezos is the gold standard of post-IPO CEO. Risk taking, innovation, shipping. The dude's on point.
He understands risk taking is the key because returns on hits are 10-1000x your investment. Look at EC2. That can cover the cost of 1000 "firephone" style project failures. But you gotta get it out of R&D and into the market. You need to ship.
And he gets that.
I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
Presumably this is for data that you want graphs of but doesn't fit in Excel?
The Amazon solution here, with the stuff they've launched today is;
a) use Kinesis Firehose to take a stream of log events from your app and dump those into S3 (gives you decent-reliability replicated backups)
b) ETL those using COPY into Amazon Redshift (a column store; very fast full-table scans)
c) point QuickShot at Redshift to draw graphs
so, yeah – but most of the data you want likely doesn't fit in Excel (or rather most of the work is reducing the data in size until it could).