Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 1)

Shaun Connolly is the vice president of corporate strategy at Hortonworks, a company with extensive experience in the application of Apache Hadoop, enabling companies to satisfy their big data needs through their Hortonworks Data Platform. In this interview, Shaun describes the services Hortonworks offers to clients, which include software support and consulting services. Shaun has

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 2)

Sramana: When did you start this self-publishing adventure? Jasinda Wilder: We started writing under this pen name a year ago. We started self-publishing in April of 2012. We started with our poetry collection that my husband and I had just to test the waters and see how easy it would be to get the manuscript

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You anticipate that that is going to be much more of a common practice going forward? Michael Wu: I believe it is going to be very important for a lot of people, like marketers who are interested in big data analytics. Whether it becomes a common practice or not, it depends on how

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 1)

In 2008 I wrote an article for Forbes, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, talking about the drastic need for disruption in the book publishing industry. Since then a growing number of authors have turned to indie publishing platforms such as Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to launch their businesses. Today indie authors are becoming brands

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 4)

Sraman Mitra: So you are anticipating user queries and caching them into intermediary steps. Michael Wu: We are not really anticipating. Query time is one thing, but there is also actionability. How are you going to look at what every single user in our community does? We have millions of users in our community, and

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Built to Enjoy: Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan (Part 7)

Sramana: What is the distribution of your workforce between the US and India? Amith Nagarajan It is almost exactly even between the two. Sramana: What is the deal with your New Orleans operation? Amith Nagarajan Essentially my wife and I decided we did not want to raise our kids in Washington D.C, and since she

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Give us some information on what kinds of metrics those are. Michael Wu: If you send a message, that message can be a blog post, an idea for people to vote on, etc. So the message has a different context. Not all messages are of the same type. That is what I mean

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Built to Enjoy: Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan (Part 6)

Sramana: Where is the company headquartered? Amith Nagarajan I started the company in college and then moved it to San Jose. In 1996 I moved it to Sacramento to get out of the Valley because it was so insanely expensive. In 2002 we consolidated operations, and I moved our headquarters from California to Tyson’s Corner

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