Magistral, the new surface transit network, was recently launched in the Moscow city centre. Of cause there was…
My old professor, Alexei Pokrovskii, told me about experiments done in the cold war in Moscow. [1] Undergraduate students were seated in a hall, and each given the task of writing out a long sequence of 0’s and 1’s. They were required to make this sequence as…
After the analysis of personal data for the needs of marketing and advertisement we decided to investigate the influence of personality pattern on the way they react to advertisement. We decided to use perhaps the most popular personality typology MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), famous from…
Everybody is used to link big data processing with Hadoop (or Spark), that use MapReduce (or its extension)…
All the debate involving Big Data or SQL vs NoSQL made me wonder if we need to take yet another look at the data as we know it. I know it is risky to say anything in this topic without taking sides. But my goal is just to throw a new view on data itself. This discussion relates to…