Add an eventSessions at Strata 2011 about Big Data and SQL
Wednesday 2nd February 2011
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MAD Skills: A Magnetic, Agile and Deep Approach to Scalable Analytics
by Brian Dolan and Joe Hellerstein
A discussion of Big Data approaches to analysis problems in marketing, forecasting, academia and enterprise computing. We focus on practices to enhance collaboration and employ rich statistical methods: a Magnetic, Agile and Deep (MAD) approach to analytics. While the approach is language-agnostic, we show that sophisticated statistics can be easily scaled in traditional environments like SQL.