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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dr. Saed Syad, Chief Data Scientist at AdTheorent (Part 3)
Saed Syad: The second thing is that there are many issues related to those types of techniques, which is independence between variables. To come up with a solution to solve this issue, they found a remedy for it by creating enneagrams, just to find the correlation between different keywords. If I have a data set
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dr. Saed Syad, Chief Data Scientist at AdTheorent (Part 2)
Saed Syad: With big data, even without having any predictive modeling, we can answer some of those questions by looking into the database. What we call targeting or retargeting is some sort of a database query that makes it faster than you do it in memory. Just having the amount of data we have it
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dr. Saed Syad, Chief Data Scientist at AdTheorent (Part 1)
Dr. Saed Sayad is the chief data scientist at AdTheorent, a platform that provides real-time analytics for advertisers. Saed is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and has more than 20 years of experience in data mining and statistics. In this interview he gives us detailed and technical information about the process of
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan, Co-founders of Aerospike (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: And why would whoever is collecting the data give that data to you? For example, if hundreds of retailers want to pull the data, who is going to manage that? Brian Bulkowski: It turns out there are companies that do that and they use our software. One of them is in the Bay
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan, Co-founders of Aerospike (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How big is the Bangalore team? Srini Srinivasan: We have about 25 people. SM: Did you lose people in Bangalore? SS: We have been very fortunate to have very little attrition. Part of it is because of the people we attract wanting to work in cutting-edge technologies. You don’t give these kinds of
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan, Co-founders of Aerospike (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: That is interesting. The reason I ask you about Facebook is because we are using Facebook content marketing. It is very well done. You just press one button and tell them “$10 of advertising, $70 of advertising,” and it will go advertising your content to the fans of your Facebook page – the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan, Co-founders of Aerospike (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Do you have to do anything with your software to optimize it for a DRAM-oriented system versus a flash-oriented system? Srini Srinivasan: We have optimizations to use a flash system. We also have optimizations for DRAM systems, but they are simpler. We wrote our own file system to take advantage of flash storage.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan, Co-founders of Aerospike (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How is this all handled? You said Aerospike cluster, does that mean you deliver your service on the cloud? Srini Srinivasan: We build software and we license our software to our customers. They put it on their hardware and run it. However, the software is self-managing. It is very easy to set up,
