March 12, 2007
A Very Useful Engine
A while back, I wrote about how useful it would be to be able to combine collaborative information and structured data. While Wikis and other collaborative information sources are great, I would argue that they aren't truly useful (yet).
Recently, ran across an organization that is turning Wikipedia entries into downloadable datasets that are available today. Very, very, very cool.
To learn more about this very useful engine and more, take a look at architected.info.
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Posted by Morgan Goeller at 12:00 PM | Comments (0)
December 8, 2006
EC2, Licensing, and Competitive Advantage
I have been working with Amazon Web Services (and EC2) a lot lately, and have made some observations that really fly in the face of conventional wisdom.
I work in ETL, which means I need to get a hold of big iron to crunch on big data. Machines are expensive, licenses are expensive, storage and networks are cheap. This is very different from Amazon's compute farm approach, which changes the economics of the game, especially with respect to software licensing ...
To learn more about EC2, licensing, and competitive advantage and more, take a look at architected.info.
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November 16, 2006
The Tyranny of the Average
Seen and Not Seen has an interesting post about "the tyranny of the average" in the design world. This graphic tells the gist of the story very clearly:
This has got me thinking about a lot of things we do in the data world, especially with respect to business intelligence.
To learn more about the the tyranny of the average and more, take a look at architected.info.
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