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- Happy Thanksgiving
The kids are playing, the wife is out seeing a movie with a friend and I’m checking RSS feeds and going thru browser tabs. We’ll be going to my parents later this afternoon. I’ve seen many posts today taking stock of how things are and where things should go. I should probably [...]
- Google Flu Trends
Lots of people are linking to it but Google’s Flu Trends is a pretty amazing site.
The things you can figure out when you have the incredible amount of data Google has access to can provide insights into things previously not possible. I really think the idea that the CDC was up to [...]
- Looking into HBase
HBase is the open source implementation of Google’s Bigtable. I’ve been keeping my eye on it in combination with Hadoop. I had some extra time today so I decided to see how easy it would be to hook it up with the aggregator we built for things like Topics.
One of the nice things [...]
- Doing My Civic Duty
Happy to be waiting in line!
- What To Watch For On Election Night
Nate Silver, creator of FiveThirtyEight.com, has written a great breakdown of how election night might go and what to keep your eye on.
