Allá por marzo de 2011 monté Datasalt junto con mi socio Pere. Aunque a día de hoy la empresa da beneficios y vivimos muy bien hemos decidido cerrar. Inspirado por la campaña #weareatwar de David Bonilla y el…

Curioseando en los escritos del fallecido Paul Samuelson, premio Nobel de Economía, me he encontrado con dos de sus artículos, uno de 1962 y otro de 2004, en los que revisa las ventajas y desventajas del libre comercio internacional.

Desde…

Some Google guys have recently published a paper about a Java library for helping on developing and optimizing chains of map-reduce jobs. It is called FlumeJava.

The library is very interesting. From my view, it is clear that it simplifies…

Three guys from Google have published the paper Detecting Near-Duplicates
for Web Crawling at the 2007 WWW Conference with a technique for detecting near-duplicates over a set of web pages.

They have developed a method aimed at performing…

Since the publication of the Google paper about BigTable, people have started to make up their mind about distributed databases. BigTable is a distributed database where you can store big amounts of data. On the other hand, a lot of…

In this post we share the talk (and the slides) Datasalt gave about analytics for ad networks at the past Big Data Spain.

In the talk, we sketch the architecture of the whole system. Specifically, we talk about how…

Magnífico libro de Tim Harford “El economista camuflado” (The undercover economist en inglés).

He de reconocer que el primer capítulo me resultó un poco obvio e incluso dejé de leer el libro. Pero volví a retomarlo por el capitulo “Por qué los países pobres son pobres” y fui…