Adam Laiacano

I'm a data engineer at tumblr and this is my blog. I write mostly about personal projects, data science, R/python, and various curiosities.

Blog Archive

  1. The videos from PyData NYC 2012 are now online. There are about 40 videos, most of which are 30-45 minutes long with some lightening talks thrown in. They cover everything from network analysis, literate programming with iPython Notebook, R/Hadoop/Pig integration, plotting with matplotlib, and much more.

  2. 2012-11-13
    #data science #pydata #python #machine learning #programming #hadoop #big data
  3. DataGotham is a 1.5 day conference focusing on the data analysis community in New York City. The focus will be on tutorials, stories, and ideas rather than tools and “enterprise solutions.” The call for proposals was just posted, so get over there and share your work.

    DataGotham is a 1.5 day conference focusing on the data analysis community in New York City. The focus will be on tutorials, stories, and ideas rather than tools and “enterprise solutions.”

    The call for proposals was just posted, so get over there and share your work.

  4. 2012-07-17
    #data science #new york city #nyc #hadoop #statistics #rstats #machine learning

  5. Crunching Big Data with R and Hadoop: Strata Conference Hadoop World - O'Reilly Conferences, October 23 - 25, 2012, New York, NY

    I’m looking forward to this talk.

    (Source: workstream-piccolbo)

  6. 2012-06-17
    #Strata #strataconf #rstats #Hadoop
  7. Infochimps just put out a white paper using a sub shop metaphor for describing the difference between batch and stream data processing. Also, their phone number is apparently 855-DATA-FUN.

    Infochimps just put out a white paper using a sub shop metaphor for describing the difference between batch and stream data processing. Also, their phone number is apparently 855-DATA-FUN.

  8. 2012-05-11
    #hadoop #big data #data science #infochimps

  9. (Source: dallas)

  10. 2011-11-16
    #hadoop #scala #tech

  11. Comparison of high level languages for mapreduce: k means

    via the Revolution Analytics blog

  12. 2011-10-14
    #hadoop #rstats #machine learning