Facebook Infographic

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This infographic laid out my social life on facebook pretty well! For people who aren't familiar with who I am at all, it hit the nail on the head as to who I interact with most frequently. The photograph it framed up top is my "profile picture." Then the site filters my facebook and shows the most popular status that I have posted. It shows these ratings based on how many people have "liked" that status in correlation to other statuses.

I thought it was really interesting that it showed me a ratios for how commonly people liked or commented on either my pictures or my statuses. It then filtered my facebook friends and showed how many were men and female and from those it showed how many were in a relationship. It rated my top 5 friends in correlation to how much they've interacted with me on facebook. It then showed how many times I've smiled in my pictured vs did unknown gestures.

Towards the end it showed my friends based on where they lived and showed me a world map of where most are located. Another cool feature was how it filtered how many people on often I have with me on my picture (3.4). The top picture of the monster describes my interactions on facbeook. The girl holding the #1 finger shows i've gotten more than 100 likes on my page. There were two pages that it was unable to retrieve which was my friends birthdays as well as the friends I communicate with the most. That is probably because my friends have their profiles on private, only allowing friends to see such information.

Twitter Sentiment

 
Twitter is based on the idea of expressing ones thoughts. The unique thing about twitter sentiment is its ability to combine these thoughts into what the majority is thinking. With these two designs it shows that most students (particularly at UGA all have the same things in mind. I would be interested to search products that I would want to use or possibly movies that I would want to see and get my peers' opinions. This is a very useful thing for companies to use as banners and exercise their consumers opinions in a cheaper more affective manner.

Tresata-Hadoop as a Service

 Tresata


Tresata works with the financial service industry to find big data solutions in their business problems.Tresata is using hadoop to power Big data and Analytic platform aiming to help the financial data industry. They have built the only (hadoop based) platform that stores, manages, and analyzes data used by financial based companies. Tresata's platform ties unique data products and large data algorithms to understand business problems.

A product Tresata offers is an online software that is available to instal through the internet. This software allows for storage, processing, retrieval, and analysis of large financial data. This is the first financial, hadoop powered, anaylitic application.

Tresata also carries services throughout the banking industry in small workshops that help educate clients on new tools, or technologies that helps them manage large data sources. Tresata also recently partnered with SI companies and assisted their clients with integrating the BIG Data platform in their technology system. This leads to solving business problems that companies would previously get stuck in.

 I believe that Tresata is one of the essential platforms needed in most businesses today. With the large amounts of data that business are presented, it can be frustrating relying on a product that works and is efficient for your needs. Tresata seems to go beyond a clients expectations and enhance the flow of large scale data and converting it into meaningful information. In the financial aspect, businesses needing to keep up with information is key and not many programs promise the service that they do. I really like that they have workshops where they teach people in the financial industry of the new technologies and tools. most of the time, people get caught up in work and don't look for such things. I think this could be a great time and money saver to businesses.

Cloudera

1. Why is Hadoop a "Big Deal"? Hadoop is a big data management system. Hadoop allows easy storing and process of large data. We see it in most sites visted today, including facebook, google, and yahoo. It makes it easy for users to build large scale systems. 2. Who are Cloudera? Cloudera consist of a community of developers including, Yahoo, facebook, lastfm, and quantcast. From these developers, cloudera builds a distribution from their codes and add features from customer requests and give it back to their community. 3. What is PIG? Pig was developed at Yahoo. Pig defines a new language called Pig Latin, designed for exploring large data set. Makes it easy fast rapid analysis of data. It's great for researchers who are familiar with programming. It allows you to write programs easily and act on them. 4. What is HIVE? Hive was developed at facebook Hive is similar to PIG. This is a data warehouse and query language. Allows you to collect data and impose structure on that data later, so you can define data after collecting it. This is great for statisticians who are already familiar with their data. It was used in facebook to empower people to look at the data they were collecting and make predictions from them. 5. What is Cassandra ? Cassandra helps create high scalable databases that is can then be distributed. It i being written in Java. It alo gets replicated in the data centers and makes sure that if the whole data center crashes no data is lost. It is present in facebook. A lot of graet data models have been created from it. 6. What is Mahout Mahout is the program that allows different sites to took user behavior and make different recommendations from items users might like. It also clusters information from documents and groups them in related documents. Mahout allows for classification which is the ability to take documents from different categories and assign them to similar labels. It allos to make things such as a list for other items of interest from an online shopping cart that one might have.