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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. ” – Andy King, 2003.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although this data is available, it should be considered with caution because of the specific dependency on a retailer’s business model, and the fact that we cannot isolate the impact of the optimization from other environmental factors such as market growth or competitors’ moves. Nakanishi, 2010. Wang, 2010. Friedrich, 2010.

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