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Links: 11-25-2009

• Choropleth map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Learn something every day.
  (categories: maps visualization mapping gis heatmap choropleth )

• Turning Predictions into Opportunities - O’Reilly Radar
  Big data is being democratised, but there’s a lot of unmet need in businesses around data warehousing. The typical solution is to build a data warehouse team around a product like Oracle, but I’ve heard plenty of business people grizzling about the result. They want answers, they don’t want the headaches and lag that a data warehouse involve. Big Data (or Cloud Analytics or whatever) may be the opportunity to figure out a new minimum viable product for these folks, and offer it without the "data warehouse" baggage. This might be back end, might be UIs, might be visualisation, but all of these have a lot of room for improvement.
  (categories: trends datamining data analytics hadoop mapreduce )

• tecosystems » What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions
  Good stuff.
  (categories: trends 2010 analytics cloud google data )

• BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType
  Cool WP plugin that aggregates activity from the web about your blog post and shows them inline.
  (categories: wordpress twitter comments plugins blog backtype )

• AppleInsider | Apple iPhone eats up 50% share of all mobile data traffic globally
  AdMob notes that Apple advanced its lead in smartphone traffic share from 43% last month to an even 50%. Symbian slipped from 29% to 25%, while third place Android grew from 10% to 11%. RIM’s share fell slightly from 8% to 7%, Windows Mobile dropped from 5% to 3%.
  (categories: iphone mobile apple data android phone traffic )

• Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)
  Twitter + terabytes of information + datamining = pig.
  (categories: hadoop twitter pig mapreduce analytics presentation datamining data )

• Analytics at Twitter - Tony Bain
  How twitter does analytics.
  (categories: analytics hadoop hive twitter pig )