Over the weekend I have revisited Tableau, enjoyed some success with MonetDB, tried to turn MySQL into a hundred million row data warehouse, been underwhelmed with Firebird, installed Greenplum and spent many frustrated hours with Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Kettle and Jitterbit.
Of course, I could just buy QlikView, but what can be done for less [...]
Entries Tagged as 'emerging technology'
Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time
September 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: MPP · QlikView · Tableau · Vertica · business intelligence · data warehouse · database · emerging technology · interactive analysis · visualization
ETech 2008
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Two talks stuck out today. One was a brief talk from Saul Griffith of Makani Power. What I took away from the talk was the impracticality of many renewable energy sources such as tidal power and wind power. A combination of all renewable options, with an emphasis on solar and a strong conservation element [...]
Tags: ETech08 · emerging technology · supercomputer
The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
I highly recommend browsing the Wiki that has been put up at UC Berkeley’s EECS dept to complement it’s original white paper (also excellent). It’s hard to predict the future applications of massively parallel systems, but we know it will be a giant evolutionary leap. They see multi-core as 2-32 processors and many-core as hundreds [...]
Tags: emerging technology