Data Mining & Analytics

Wolfram|Alpha Computational Search Engine

By robert
Mathematica for the laymen

Wolfram|Alpha, a “Computational Search Engine”, will launch on May 18, giving people access to a wealth of “computable” facts and algorithms. It takes queries in simple English and produces all sorts of results in the form of tables, charts and diagrams…. »

HIVE: a Data Warehousing Framework on top of hadoop

By robert
hadoop

came across this new project under the apache umbrella, dubbed Hive, related to the hadoop initiative which implements a data warehouse infrastructure that takes advantage of the core MapReduce hadoop libraries to create a query execution engine for large scale data processing.
The project is still in its early development stages, but the idea sounds… »