Imagine choosing one application for Linux that worked on the version you currently use. You choose another program but find that it doesn’t work on that version of Linux. A third application? It works with another version of Linux. Luckily, that rarely happens. In 2001, the Linux Foundation established Linux Standard
Earlier this week I managed to catch up briefly with Christoph Sporleder, Vice President Centers of Excellence for EMEA & Asia Pacific, to talk Hadoop, big data and get some of his views on where we might be headed with big data. Mark Torr: Is big data just a buzz
Depending on whether you are a half-full or a half-empty kind of person, the "big data" revolution is either a tremendous windfall for the career of a statistician, or the makings of a real existential crisis. As with most things, it’s probably a bit of both. On the one hand,
