What Netflix knows about you and why it’s a lesson to others…

There has been recent a flurry of articles about Netflix and how they are analysing user behaviour and habits to enhance the recommendations they make. Last week Mohammed Sabah (Senior Data Scientist @ Netflix) presented at Hadoop Summit in San Jose describing some of the ways they do this and the impact of making good recommendations – measurable …

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Fear, uncertainty and doubt about Cloud

Since the rise of the Cloud phenomenon there has always been grumbles about the security of data stored within it and data accessible over Cloud-based solutions. Naturally big-name vendors have capitalised upon this fear, uncertainty and doubt by portraying Cloud as being powered by cheap-and-nasty server hardware prone to failure, and managed by spotty teenagers or cowboys. It’s not …

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Where are we on the Big Data hype cycle?

At the moment it seems that every other day brings announcements of a new “Big Data” start-up, partnership, conference, report etc. Just about every man and his dog have made some form of press release related to “Big Data” recently. Every week I stumble across some “Big Data” relevant conference or event that I’ve just missed out …

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Reaction to: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy (Engadget)

This Engadget article by Terrence O’Brien (@TerrenceOBrien) is a little underwhelming. It has all the writing style and voice I’m accustomed to reading on Engadget – where they’re normally dissecting the latest shiny piece of hardware from Apple, Samsung etc. However the Raspberry Pi was never intended for iPhone-totting news editors; its original purpose was …

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Surviving the 1st Global Data Science Hackathon

If you haven’t heard already, this week is BigDataWeek – a coordinated set of community events around the globe to bring like-minded Data Geeks together. One of the most exciting developments is the announcement of the 1st Global Data Science Hackathon.  Starting on Saturday and running for 24 hours competitors around the global will be vying to better predict the Air Quality …

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It’s been a while…

It’s been a busy couple of months…  I’ve left my career at BSkyB to co-found a Data Science startup called TUMRAand have been busy beavering away on developing our products!! I have however updated my parent website http://cotdp.com/ recently, and have yet to consolidate MovableType with my HTML5gasm homepage.  Expect more soon :O)

lm-sensors on Ganglia

Ganglia has a great little utility called gmetric that allows you to report on anything you like.  Abusing this feature combined with a simple shell script I was able to get CPU Temperatures from lm-sensors into my pretty graphs on Ganglia. Original credit goes here.  

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