Hadoop 3.2.0 released with support for node attributes in YARN, Hadoop submarine and more
The team at Apache Hadoop released Apache Hadoop 3.2.0, an open source software platform for distributed storage and for processing of large data sets....
Open Government Data Act makes non-sensitive public data publicly available in open and machine...
On Monday, the U.S President, Donald Trump signed the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act, which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN)...
4 things in tech that might die in 2019
If you’re in and around the tech industry, you’ve probably noticed that hype is an everyday reality. People spend a lot of time talking...
Quantum computing, edge analytics, and meta learning: key trends in data science and big...
When historians study contemporary notions of data in the early 21st century, 2018 might well be a landmark year. In many ways this was...
How Facebook uses HyperLogLog in Presto to speed up cardinality estimation
Yesterday, Facebook shared how they use HyperLogLog (HLL) in Presto to do computational intensive operations like estimating distinct values within a huge dataset. With...
Twitter adopts Apache Kafka as their Pub/Sub System
Yesterday, Twitter shared that they are migrating to Apache Kafka from an in-house Pub/Sub system, EventBus which is built on top of Apache DistributedLog....
3 announcements about Amazon S3 from re:Invent 2018: Intelligent-Tiering, Object Lock, and Batch Operations
On day 1 of re:Invent 2018, Amazon announced three additions to its Simple Storage Service (S3): Intelligent-Tiering, Object Lock, and Batch Operations. S3 Intelligent Tiering is...
Harvard Law School launches its Caselaw Access Project API and bulk data service making...
On October 31st, The Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library announced the launch of its Caselaw Access Project API and bulk...
Matplotlib 3.0 is here with new cyclic colormaps, and convenience methods
Matplotlib team announced Matplotlib version 3.0, on Tuesday. Matplotlib 3.0 comes with new features such as two new cyclic colormaps, AnchoredDirectionArrows feature, and other...
nuScenes: The largest open-source dataset for self-driving vehicles by Scale and nuTonomy
Scale and nuTonomy, the leading players in the self-driving vehicle ecosystems, open-sourced a research dataset named nuScenes last week. According to the companies, this...
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Stanford University launches Institute of Human Centered Artificial Intelligence; receives public...
On Monday, Stanford University launched the new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) to augment humanity with AI. The institute aims to study, guide...
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